(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No ☒

Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer’s classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date.

(In millions, except per share amounts) (Unaudited)	Three Months Ended March 31,					Nine Months Ended March 31,					Three Months Ended December 31,					Six Months Ended December 31,


	2017		2016			2017		2016			2017			2016			2017		2016

Revenue:
Product	$	13,391	$	14,321		$	43,421	$	47,514		$	17,926		$	18,273	$	32,224	$	33,241
Service and other		8,699		6,210			23,212		17,192			10,992			7,553		21,232		14,513


Total revenue		22,090		20,531			66,633		64,706			28,918			25,826		53,456		47,754


Cost of revenue:
Product		3,075		3,801			12,034		14,104			5,498			5,378		8,478		8,959
Service and other		4,985		3,921			13,771		10,697			5,566			4,523		10,864		8,786


Total cost of revenue		8,060		7,722			25,805		24,801			11,064			9,901		19,342		17,745


Gross margin		14,030		12,809			40,828		39,905			17,854			15,925		34,114		30,009
Research and development		3,355		2,980			9,523		8,842			3,504			3,062		7,078		6,168
Sales and marketing		3,879		3,406			11,183		10,699			4,562			4,079		8,374		7,297
General and administrative		1,202		1,140			3,126		3,262			1,109			879		2,275		1,924


Operating income		5,594		5,283			16,996		17,102			8,679			7,905		16,387		14,620
Other income (expense), net		322		(247	)		608		(698	)
Other income, net												490			117		766		229


Income before income taxes		5,916		5,036			17,604		16,404			9,169			8,022		17,153		14,849
Provision for income taxes		1,115		1,280			2,913		2,728			15,471			1,755		16,879		2,915


Net income	$	4,801	$	3,756		$	14,691	$	13,676
Net income (loss)											$	(6,302	)	$	6,267	$	274	$	11,934


Earnings per share:
Earnings (loss) per share:
Basic	$	0.62	$	0.48		$	1.89	$	1.72		$	(0.82	)	$	0.81	$	0.04	$	1.54
Diluted	$	0.61	$	0.47		$	1.87	$	1.70		$	(0.82	)	$	0.80	$	0.04	$	1.52


Weighted average shares outstanding:
Basic		7,725		7,895			7,756		7,952			7,710			7,755		7,709		7,772
Diluted		7,813		7,985			7,840		8,041			7,710			7,830		7,799		7,853


Cash dividends declared per common share	$	0.39	$	0.36		$	1.17	$	1.08		$	0.42		$	0.39	$	0.84	$	0.78

(In millions) (Unaudited)

Three Months Ended
March 31,

Nine Months Ended
March 31,

2017

2016

2017

2016

Net income

$
  4,801

$
  3,756

$
  14,691

$
  13,676

Other comprehensive income (loss):

Net unrealized gains (losses) on derivatives (net of tax effects of $1, $(30), $(1), and $(2))

(225
)

(285
)

18

(277
)
Net unrealized gains (losses) on investments (net of tax effects of $34, $186, $(457), and $(36))

65

345

(846
)

(66
)
Translation adjustments and other (net of tax effects of $0, $3, $7, and $(18))

292

7

(65
)

(339
)

Other comprehensive income (loss)

132

67

(893
)

(682
)

Comprehensive income

$
4,933

$
  3,823

$
  13,798

$
12,994

(In millions) (Unaudited)	Three Months Ended December 31,						Six Months Ended December 31,


	2017			2016			2017			2016

Net income (loss)	$	(6,302	)	$	6,267		$	274		$	11,934


Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax:
Net change related to derivatives		(7	)		280			(113	)		243
Net change related to investments		(878	)		(994	)		(1,166	)		(911	)
Translation adjustments and other		(40	)		(592	)		253			(474	)


Other comprehensive loss		(925	)		(1,306	)		(1,026	)		(1,142	)


Comprehensive income (loss)	$	(7,227	)	$	4,961		$	(752	)	$	10,792

~~See~~Refer to accompanying notes. Refer to Note 18 – Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) for further information.

(In millions) (Unaudited)


	March 31, 2017		June 30, 2016		December 31, 2017			June 30, 2017

Assets
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	6,713	$	6,510	$	12,859		$	7,663
Short-term investments (including securities loaned of $4,462 and $204)		119,305		106,730
Short-term investments (including securities loaned of $4,247 and $3,694)						129,921			125,318


Total cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments		126,018		113,240		142,780			132,981
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $302 and $426		12,882		18,277
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $337 and $345						18,428			22,431
Inventories		1,979		2,251		2,003			2,181
Other		5,434		5,892		4,422			5,103


Total current assets		146,313		139,660		167,633			162,696
Property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation of $22,992 and $19,800		21,962		18,356
Property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation of $26,849 and $24,179						26,304			23,734
Operating lease right-of-use assets						6,749			6,555
Equity and other investments		7,381		10,431		3,961			6,023
Goodwill		34,668		17,872		35,355			35,122
Intangible assets, net		10,547		3,733		9,034			10,106
Other long-term assets		4,146		3,416		6,967			6,076


Total assets	$	225,017	$	193,468	$	256,003		$	250,312


Liabilities and stockholders’ equity
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable	$	6,217	$	6,898	$	7,850		$	7,390
Short-term debt		7,187		12,904		12,466			9,072
Current portion of long-term debt		599		0		3,446			1,049
Accrued compensation		4,604		5,264		4,427			5,819
Income taxes		654		580
Short-term income taxes						788			718
Short-term unearned revenue		26,518		27,468		21,309			24,013
Securities lending payable		201		294		26			97
Other		6,025		5,949		7,787			7,587


Total current liabilities		52,005		59,357		58,099			55,745
Long-term debt		76,222		40,557		73,348			76,073
Long-term income taxes						30,050			13,485
Long-term unearned revenue		9,215		6,441		2,500			2,643
Deferred income taxes		465		1,476		3,186			5,734
Operating lease liabilities						5,640			5,372
Other long-term liabilities		17,381		13,640		4,820			3,549


Total liabilities		155,288		121,471		177,643			162,601


Commitments and contingencies
Stockholders’ equity:
Common stock and paid-in capital—shares authorized 24,000; outstanding 7,723 and 7,808		68,554		68,178
Common stock and paid-in capital – shares authorized 24,000; outstanding 7,705 and 7,708						70,192			69,315
Retained earnings		531		2,282		8,567			17,769
Accumulated other comprehensive income		644		1,537
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)						(399	)		627


Total stockholders’ equity		69,729		71,997		78,360			87,711


Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity	$	225,017	$	193,468	$	256,003		$	250,312

(In millions) (Unaudited)	Three Months Ended March 31,						Nine Months Ended March 31,						Three Months Ended December 31,							Six Months Ended December 31,


	2017			2016			2017			2016			2017			2016				2017		2016

Operations
Net income	$	4,801		$	3,756		$	14,691		$	13,676
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash from operations:
Net income (loss)													$	(6,302	)	$	6,267		$	274		$	11,934
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash from operations:
Depreciation, amortization, and other		2,453			1,707			6,435			4,712			2,536			2,166			5,035			3,982
Stock-based compensation expense		883			672			2,353			2,004			986			767			1,959			1,470
Net recognized losses (gains) on investments and derivatives		(590	)		65			(1,553	)		216
Net recognized gains on investments and derivatives														(684	)		(652	)		(1,207	)		(963	)
Deferred income taxes		(777	)		351			(1,349	)		177			(2,305	)		5			(2,358	)		545
Deferral of unearned revenue		15,995			13,073			42,719			36,066
Recognition of unearned revenue		(14,941	)		(12,210	)		(41,490	)		(35,494	)
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable		1,487			2,288			5,950			5,546			(3,908	)		(2,789	)		4,041			4,398
Inventories		(16	)		241			249			408			1,205			1,132			182			265
Other current assets		(25	)		(420	)		318			(1,914	)		354			1,300			36			335
Other long-term assets		(26	)		7			(298	)		58			(344	)		(200	)		(622	)		(293	)
Accounts payable		(425	)		(129	)		(769	)		105			938			99			531			(344	)
Unearned revenue														(1,065	)		(1,077	)		(2,871	)		(2,884	)
Income taxes														15,974			843			16,635			1,407
Other current liabilities		742			626			(1,148	)		(1,293	)		643			(1,267	)		(1,521	)		(1,727	)
Other long-term liabilities		1,099			340			2,394			594			(153	)		(301	)		201			(283	)


Net cash from operations		10,660			10,367			28,502			24,861			7,875			6,293			20,315			17,842


Financing
Proceeds from issuance (repayments) of short-term debt, maturities of 90 days or less, net		(1,302	)		2,622			(8,447	)		481			3,759			(3,755	)		49			(7,145	)
Proceeds from issuance of debt		547			25			42,593			13,274			3,229			17,069			7,183			42,046
Repayments of debt		(211	)		(900	)		(4,554	)		(2,771	)		(3,327	)		(4,118	)		(4,496	)		(4,343	)
Common stock issued		179			159			551			495			189			131			496			372
Common stock repurchased		(2,062	)		(3,857	)		(10,023	)		(12,292	)		(2,008	)		(3,599	)		(4,578	)		(7,961	)
Common stock cash dividends paid		(3,012	)		(2,842	)		(8,836	)		(8,185	)		(3,238	)		(3,024	)		(6,241	)		(5,824	)
Other, net		(375	)		(123	)		(175	)		(366	)		(156	)		312			(306	)		200


Net cash from (used in) financing		(6,236	)		(4,916	)		11,109			(9,364	)		(1,552	)		3,016			(7,893	)		17,345


Investing
Additions to property and equipment		(1,695	)		(2,308	)		(5,846	)		(5,688	)		(2,586	)		(1,988	)		(4,718	)		(4,151	)
Acquisition of companies, net of cash acquired, and purchases of intangible and other assets		(802	)		(559	)		(25,586	)		(1,330	)		(27	)		(24,760	)		(206	)		(24,784	)
Purchases of investments		(43,918	)		(27,341	)		(147,874	)		(99,661	)		(45,154	)		(46,775	)		(78,115	)		(103,956	)
Maturities of investments		4,860			5,192			22,234			16,229			6,352			8,715			11,578			17,374
Sales of investments		36,444			19,599			117,754			76,292			41,261			48,987			64,297			81,310
Securities lending payable		(1,080	)		(66	)		(94	)		281			(177	)		1,070			(71	)		986


Net cash used in investing		(6,191	)		(5,483	)		(39,412	)		(13,877	)		(331	)		(14,751	)		(7,235	)		(33,221	)


Effect of foreign exchange rates on cash and cash equivalents		12			17			4			(45	)		(17	)		(18	)		9			(8	)


Net change in cash and cash equivalents		(1,755	)		(15	)		203			1,575			5,975			(5,460	)		5,196			1,958
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period		8,468			7,185			6,510			5,595			6,884			13,928			7,663			6,510


Cash and cash equivalents, end of period	$	6,713		$	7,170		$	6,713		$	7,170		$	12,859		$	8,468		$	12,859		$	8,468

(In millions) (Unaudited)	Three Months Ended March 31,						Nine Months Ended March 31,						Three Months Ended December 31,						Six Months Ended December 31,


	2017			2016			2017			2016			2017			2016			2017			2016

Common stock and paid-in capital
Balance, beginning of period	$	68,177		$	67,977		$	68,178		$	68,465		$	69,419		$	67,747		$	69,315		$	68,178
Common stock issued		179			159			551			495			189			131			496			372
Common stock repurchased		(684	)		(853	)		(2,619	)		(3,010	)		(402	)		(561	)		(1,577	)		(1,935	)
Stock-based compensation expense		883			672			2,353			2,004			986			767			1,959			1,470
Other, net		(1	)		57			91			58			0			93			(1	)		92


Balance, end of period		68,554			68,012			68,554			68,012			70,192			68,177			70,192			68,177


Retained earnings
Balance, beginning of period		120			7,030			2,282			9,096			19,702			12,757			17,769			13,118
Net income		4,801			3,756			14,691			13,676
Net income (loss)														(6,302	)		6,267			274			11,934
Common stock cash dividends		(3,009	)		(2,822	)		(9,037	)		(8,530	)		(3,232	)		(3,003	)		(6,471	)		(6,028	)
Common stock repurchased		(1,381	)		(3,010	)		(7,405	)		(9,288	)		(1,601	)		(3,021	)		(3,005	)		(6,024	)


Balance, end of period		531			4,954			531			4,954			8,567			13,000			8,567			13,000


Accumulated other comprehensive income
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)
Balance, beginning of period		512			1,773			1,537			2,522			526			1,958			627			1,794
Other comprehensive income (loss)		132			67			(893	)		(682	)
Other comprehensive loss														(925	)		(1,306	)		(1,026	)		(1,142	)


Balance, end of period		644			1,840			644			1,840			(399	)		652			(399	)		652


Total stockholders’ equity	$	69,729		$	74,806		$	69,729		$	74,806		$	78,360		$	81,829		$	78,360		$	81,829

~~We prepare our~~Our unaudited interim consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“~~U.S.~~ GAAP”). In the opinion of management, the unaudited interim consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments of a normal recurring nature that are necessary for a fair presentation of the results for the interim periods presented. Interim results are not necessarily indicative of results for a full year. The information included in this Form 10-Q should be read in conjunction with information included in the Microsoft Corporation ~~2016~~2017 Form 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on ~~July 28, 2016.~~

~~We have recast certain prior period amounts to conform to the current period presentation, with no impact on consolidated net income or cash flows.~~August 2, 2017.

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Microsoft Corporation and its subsidiaries. Intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated. Equity investments ~~through~~for which we are able to exercise significant influence over but do not control the investee and are not the primary beneficiary of the investee’s activities are accounted for using the equity method. Investments ~~through~~for which we are not able to exercise significant influence over the investee and which do not have readily determinable fair values are accounted for under the cost method.

Preparing financial statements requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue, and expenses. Examples of estimates and assumptions include: for revenue recognition, determining the nature and timing of satisfaction of performance obligations, and determining the standalone selling price (“SSP”) of performance obligations, variable consideration, and other obligations such as product returns and refunds; loss contingencies; product warranties; the fair value of and/or potential impairment of goodwill and intangible assets for our reporting units; product life cycles; useful lives of our tangible and intangible assets; allowances for doubtful accounts; ~~allowances for product returns;~~ the market value of, and demand for, our inventory; ~~and~~ stock-based compensation forfeiture ~~rates. Examples of assumptions include: the elements comprising a software arrangement, including the distinction between upgrades or enhancements and new products;~~rates; when technological feasibility is achieved for our products; the potential outcome of future tax consequences of events that have been recognized on our consolidated financial statements or tax returns; and determining when investment impairments are other-than-temporary. Actual results and outcomes may differ from management’s estimates and assumptions.

Product revenue includes sales from operating systems; cross-device productivity applications; server applications; business solution applications; desktop and server management tools; software development tools; video games; and hardware such as PCs, tablets, gaming and entertainment consoles, ~~phones,~~ other intelligent devices, and related ~~accessories; and training and certification of computer system integrators and developers.~~accessories.

Service and other revenue includes sales from cloud-based solutions that provide customers with software, services, platforms, and content such as Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Azure, ~~(“Azure”),~~ Microsoft Dynamics 365, ~~(“Dynamics 365”),~~ and Xbox Live; solution support; and consulting services. Service and other revenue also includes sales from online advertising and LinkedIn.

Revenue is recognized upon transfer of control of promised products or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration we expect to receive in exchange for those products or services. We enter into contracts that can include various combinations of products and services, which are generally capable of being distinct and accounted for as separate performance obligations. Revenue is recognized net of allowances for returns and any taxes collected from customers, which are subsequently remitted to governmental authorities.

Licenses for on-premises software provide the customer with a right to use the software as it exists when made available to the customer. Customers may purchase perpetual licenses or subscribe to licenses, which provide customers with the same functionality and differ mainly in the duration over which the customer benefits from the software. Revenue from distinct on-premises licenses is recognized upfront at the point in time when the software is made available to the customer. In cases where we allocate revenue to software updates, primarily because the updates are provided at no additional charge, revenue is recognized as the updates are provided, which is generally ratably over the estimated life of the related device or license.

Certain volume licensing programs, including Enterprise Agreements, include on-premises licenses combined with Software Assurance (“SA”). SA conveys rights to new software and upgrades released over the contract period and provides support, tools, and training to help customers deploy and use products more efficiently. On-premises licenses are considered distinct performance obligations when sold with SA. Revenue allocated to SA is generally recognized ratably over the contract period as customers simultaneously consume and receive benefits, given that SA comprises distinct performance obligations that are satisfied over time.

Cloud services, which allow customers to use hosted software over the contract period without taking possession of the software, are provided on either a subscription or consumption basis. Revenue related to cloud services provided on a subscription basis is recognized ratably over the contract period. Revenue related to cloud services provided on a consumption basis, such as the amount of storage used in a period, is recognized based on the customer utilization of such resources. When cloud services require a significant level of integration and interdependency with software and the individual components are not considered distinct, all revenue is recognized over the period in which the cloud services are provided.

Revenue from search advertising is recognized when the advertisement appears in the search results or when the action necessary to earn the revenue has been completed. Revenue from consulting services is recognized as services are provided.

Our hardware is generally highly dependent on, and interrelated with, the underlying operating system and cannot function without the operating system. In these cases, the hardware and software license are accounted for as a single performance obligation and revenue is recognized at the point in time when ownership is transferred to resellers or directly to end customers through retail stores and online marketplaces.

Refer to Note 19 – Segment Information and Geographic Data for further information, including revenue by significant product and service offering.

Our contracts with customers often include promises to transfer multiple products and services to a customer. Determining whether products and services are considered distinct performance obligations that should be accounted for separately versus together may require significant judgment. When a cloud-based service includes both on-premises software licenses and cloud services, judgment is required to determine whether the software license is considered distinct and accounted for separately, or not distinct and accounted for together with the cloud service and recognized over time. Certain cloud services, primarily Office 365, depend on a significant level of integration, interdependency, and interrelation between the desktop applications and cloud services, and are accounted for together as one performance obligation. Revenue from Office 365 is recognized ratably over the period in which the cloud services are provided.

Judgment is required to determine the SSP for each distinct performance obligation. We use a single amount to estimate SSP for items that are not sold separately, including on-premises licenses sold with SA or software updates provided at no additional charge. We use a range of amounts to estimate SSP when we sell each of the products and services separately and need to determine whether there is a discount to be allocated based on the relative SSP of the various products and services.

In instances where SSP is not directly observable, such as when we do not sell the product or service separately, we determine the SSP using information that may include market conditions and other observable inputs. We typically have more than one SSP for individual products and services due to the stratification of those products and services by customers and circumstances. In these instances, we may use information such as the size of the customer and geographic region in determining the SSP.

Due to the various benefits from and the nature of our SA program, judgment is required to assess the pattern of delivery, including the exercise pattern of certain benefits across our portfolio of customers.

Our products are generally sold with a right of return and we may provide other credits or incentives, which are accounted for as variable consideration when estimating the amount of revenue to recognize. Returns and credits are estimated at contract inception and updated at the end of each reporting period as additional information becomes available.

Timing of revenue recognition may differ from the timing of invoicing to customers. We record a receivable when revenue is recognized prior to invoicing, or unearned revenue when revenue is recognized subsequent to invoicing. For multi-year agreements, we generally invoice customers annually at the beginning of each annual coverage period. We record a receivable related to revenue recognized for multi-year on-premises licenses as we have an unconditional right to invoice and receive payment in the future related to those licenses.

The opening balance of current and long-term accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts, was $22.3 billion as of July 1, 2016.

As of December 31, 2017 and June 30, 2017, long-term accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts, were $1.6 billion and $1.7 billion, respectively, and are included in other long-term assets on our consolidated balance sheets.

The allowance for doubtful accounts reflects our best estimate of probable losses inherent in the accounts receivable balance. We determine the allowance based on known troubled accounts, historical experience, and other currently available evidence.

Unearned revenue is comprised mainly of unearned revenue related to volume licensing programs, which may include SA and cloud services. Unearned revenue is generally invoiced annually at the beginning of each contract period for multi-year agreements and recognized ratably over the coverage period. Unearned revenue also includes payments for consulting services to be performed in the future; LinkedIn subscriptions; Office 365 subscriptions; Xbox Live subscriptions; Dynamics business solutions; Windows 10 post-delivery support; Skype prepaid credits and subscriptions; and other offerings for which we have been paid in advance and earn the revenue when we transfer control of the product or service.

Refer to Note 14 – Unearned Revenue for further information, including unearned revenue by segment and changes in unearned revenue during the period.

Payment terms and conditions vary by contract type, although terms generally include a requirement of payment within 30 to 60 days. In instances where the timing of revenue recognition differs from the timing of invoicing, we have determined our contracts generally do not include a significant financing component. The primary purpose of our invoicing terms is to provide customers with simplified and predictable ways of purchasing our products and services, not to receive financing from our customers or to provide customers with financing. Examples include invoicing at the beginning of a subscription term with revenue recognized ratably over the contract period, and multi-year on-premises licenses that are invoiced annually with revenue recognized upfront.

We recognize an asset for the incremental costs of obtaining a contract with a customer if we expect the benefit of those costs to be longer than one year. We have determined that certain sales incentive programs meet the requirements to be capitalized. Total capitalized costs to obtain a contract were immaterial during the periods presented and are included in other current and long-term assets on our consolidated balance sheets.

We apply a practical expedient to expense costs as incurred for costs to obtain a contract with a customer when the amortization period would have been one year or less. These costs include our internal sales force compensation program and certain partner sales incentive programs as we have determined annual compensation is commensurate with annual sales activities.

We determine if an arrangement is a lease at inception. Operating leases are included in operating lease right-of-use (“ROU”) assets, other current liabilities, and operating lease liabilities on our consolidated balance sheets. Finance leases are included in property and equipment, other current liabilities, and other long-term liabilities on our consolidated balance sheets.

ROU assets represent our right to use an underlying asset for the lease term and lease liabilities represent our obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. Operating lease ROU assets and liabilities are recognized at commencement date based on the present value of lease payments over the lease term. As most of our leases do not provide an implicit rate, we use our incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at commencement date in determining the present value of lease payments. The operating lease ROU asset also includes any lease payments made and excludes lease incentives. Our lease terms may include options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that we will exercise that option. Lease expense for lease payments is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

We have lease agreements with lease and non-lease components, which are generally accounted for separately. For certain equipment leases, such as vehicles, we account for the lease and non-lease components as a single lease component. Additionally, for certain equipment leases, we apply a portfolio approach to effectively account for the operating lease ROU assets and liabilities.

On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) was enacted into law, which significantly changes existing U.S. tax law and includes numerous provisions that affect our business. Refer to Note 12 – Income Taxes for further discussion.

As a result of the TCJA, we have recast certain prior period income tax liabilities on our consolidated balance sheets to conform to the current period presentation. Previously reported balances were impacted as follows:

These adjustments had no impact on our consolidated income statements or net cash from or used in operating, financing, or investing on our consolidated cash flows statements.

In February 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued a new standard related to leases to increase transparency and comparability among organizations by requiring the recognition of ROU assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet. Most prominent among the changes in the standard is the recognition of ROU assets

and lease liabilities by lessees for those leases classified as operating leases. Under the standard, disclosures are required to meet the objective of enabling users of financial statements to assess the amount, timing, and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases. We are also required to recognize and measure leases existing at, or entered into after, the beginning of the earliest comparative period presented using a modified retrospective approach, with certain practical expedients available.

We elected to early adopt the standard effective July 1, 2017 concurrent with our adoption of the new standard related to revenue recognition. We elected the available practical expedients and implemented internal controls and key system functionality to enable the preparation of financial information on adoption.

The standard had a material impact on our consolidated balance sheets, but did not have an impact on our consolidated income statements. The most significant impact was the recognition of ROU assets and lease liabilities for operating leases, while our accounting for finance leases remained substantially unchanged. Adoption of the standard required us to restate certain previously reported results, including the recognition of additional ROU assets and lease liabilities for operating leases. Refer to Impacts to Previously Reported Results below for the impact of adoption of the standard on our consolidated financial statements.

In May 2014, the FASB issued a new standard related to revenue recognition. Under the standard, revenue is recognized when a customer obtains control of promised goods or services in an amount that reflects the consideration the entity expects to receive in exchange for those goods or services. In addition, the standard requires disclosure of the nature, amount, timing, and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from contracts with customers.

We elected to early adopt the standard effective July 1, 2017, using the full retrospective method, which required us to restate each prior reporting period presented. We implemented internal controls and key system functionality to enable the preparation of financial information on adoption.

The most significant impact of the standard relates to our accounting for software license revenue. Specifically, for Windows 10, we recognize revenue predominantly at the time of billing and delivery rather than ratably over the life of the related device. For certain multi-year commercial software subscriptions that include both distinct software licenses and SA, we recognize license revenue at the time of contract execution rather than over the subscription period. Due to the complexity of certain of our commercial license subscription contracts, the actual revenue recognition treatment required under the standard depends on contract-specific terms and in some instances may vary from recognition at the time of billing. Revenue recognition related to our hardware, cloud offerings (such as Office 365), LinkedIn, and professional services remains substantially unchanged.

Adoption of the standard using the full retrospective method required us to restate certain previously reported results, including the recognition of additional revenue and an increase in the provision for income taxes, primarily due to the net change in Windows 10 revenue recognition. In addition, adoption of the standard resulted in an increase in accounts receivable and other current and long-term assets, driven by unbilled receivables from upfront recognition of revenue for certain multi-year commercial software subscriptions that include both distinct software licenses and SA; a reduction of unearned revenue, driven by the upfront recognition of license revenue from Windows 10 and certain multi-year commercial software subscriptions; and an increase in deferred income taxes, driven by the upfront recognition of revenue. Refer to Impacts to Previously Reported Results below for the impact of adoption of the standard on our consolidated financial statements.

Adoption of the standards related to revenue recognition and leases impacted our previously reported results as follows:

Adoption of the standards related to revenue recognition and leases had no impact to cash from or used in operating, financing, or investing on our consolidated cash flows statements.

Financial Instruments – Targeted Improvements to Accounting for Hedging Activities

In August 2017, the FASB issued new guidance related to accounting for hedging activities. This guidance expands strategies that qualify for hedge accounting, changes how many hedging relationships are presented in the financial statements, and simplifies the application of hedge accounting in certain situations. The standard will be effective for us beginning July 1, 2019, with early adoption permitted for any interim or annual period before the effective date. Adoption of the standard will be applied using a modified retrospective approach through a cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings as of the effective date. We are currently evaluating the impact of this standard on our consolidated financial statements, including accounting policies, processes, and systems.

In October 2016, the ~~Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”)~~FASB issued new guidance requiring an entity to recognize the income tax consequences of an intra-entity transfer of an asset other than inventory when the transfer occurs, rather than when the asset has been sold to an outside party. This guidance is effective for us beginning July 1, 2018, with early adoption permitted beginning July 1, 2017. We plan to adopt the guidance effective July 1, 2018. Adoption of the guidance will be applied using a modified retrospective approach through a cumulative-effect

adjustment to retained earnings as of the effective date. A cumulative-effect adjustment will capture the write-off of income tax consequences deferred

from past intra-entity transfers involving assets other than inventory and new deferred tax assets for amounts not recognized under current ~~U.S.~~ GAAP. WeAs a result of the TCJA, we are currently ~~evaluating~~re-evaluating the impact of ~~the guidance~~this standard on our consolidated financial statements, including accounting policies, processes, and systems.

In June 2016, the FASB issued a new standard to replace the incurred loss impairment methodology under current ~~U.S.~~ GAAP with a methodology that reflects expected credit losses and requires consideration of a broader range of reasonable and supportable information to inform credit loss estimates. We will be required to use a forward-looking expected credit loss model for accounts receivables, loans, and other financial instruments. Credit losses relating to available-for-sale debt securities will also be recorded through an allowance for credit losses rather than as a reduction in the amortized cost basis of the securities. The standard will be effective for us beginning July 1, 2020, with early adoption permitted beginning July 1, 2019. Adoption of the standard will be applied using a modified retrospective approach through a cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings as of the effective ~~date.~~date to align our credit loss methodology with the new standard. We are currently evaluating the impact of this standard on our consolidated financial statements, including accounting policies, processes, and systems.

In February 2016, the FASB issued a new standard related to leases to increase transparency and comparability among organizations by requiring the recognition of right-of-use (“ROU”) assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet. Most prominent among the changes in the standard is the recognition of ROU assets and lease liabilities by lessees for those leases classified as operating leases under current U.S. GAAP. Under the standard, disclosures are required to meet the objective of enabling users of financial statements to assess the amount, timing, and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases. We will be required to recognize and measure leases existing at, or entered into after, the beginning of the earliest comparative period presented using a modified retrospective approach, with certain practical expedients available.

The standard will be effective for us beginning July 1, 2019, with early adoption permitted. We plan to adopt the standard effective July 1, 2017 concurrent with our adoption of the new standard related to revenue recognition. We intend to elect the available practical expedients on adoption. While our ability to early adopt depends on system readiness, including software procured from third-party providers, and completing our analysis of information necessary to restate prior period consolidated financial statements, we remain on schedule and have implemented key system functionality to enable the preparation of restated financial information.

We anticipate this standard will have a material impact on our consolidated balance sheets. However, we do not expect adoption will have a material impact on our consolidated income statements. While we are continuing to assess potential impacts of the standard, we currently expect the most significant impact will be the recognition of ROU assets and lease liabilities for operating leases. We expect our accounting for capital leases to remain substantially unchanged.

We are nearing completion of retrospectively adjusting financial information for fiscal year 2016 and are progressing as planned for fiscal year 2017. We expect adoption of the standard will result in the recognition of additional ROU assets and lease liabilities for operating leases of approximately $5 billion as of June 30, 2016. ROU assets and lease liabilities for operating leases are expected to increase in fiscal year 2017 primarily due to the acquisition of LinkedIn Corporation (“LinkedIn”) and additional datacenter leases.

Financial Instruments – Recognition, Measurement, Presentation, and Disclosure

In January 2016, the FASB issued a new standard related to certain aspects of recognition, measurement, presentation, and disclosure of financial instruments. Most prominent among the changes in the standard is the requirement for changes in the fair value of our equity investments, with certain exceptions, to be recognized through net income rather than other comprehensive income (“OCI”). Under the standard, equity investments that do not have a readily determinable fair value are eligible for the measurement alternative. Using the measurement alternative, investments without readily determinable fair values will be valued at cost, with adjustments to fair value for changes in price or impairments reflected through net income.

The standard will be effective for us beginning July 1, 2018. Adoption of the standard will be applied using a modified retrospective approach through a cumulative-effect adjustment from accumulated other comprehensive income (“AOCI”) to retained earnings as of the effective date. ~~We are currently~~A cumulative-effect adjustment will capture any previously held unrealized gains and losses held in AOCI related to our equity investments carried at fair value as well as the impact of recording the fair value of certain equity investments carried at cost. The remaining implementation matters include establishing processes and controls around equity securities without readily determinable fair values and evaluating the impact of ~~this~~the standard to our accounting policies and disclosures. We expect to elect the measurement alternative for equity investments that do not have readily determinable fair values.

The impact on our consolidated ~~financial statements, including accounting policies, processes,~~balance sheets upon adoption will depend on the unrealized gains and ~~systems.~~losses held in AOCI related to our equity investments on the date of adoption, and on any impact the new guidance may have on our equity investments carried at cost. See Note 4 – Investments for our current investment balances. The impact of the standard going forward on our consolidated income statement will be dependent on our equity investment holdings, with adjustments to fair value reflected through net income. Adoption of the standard is expected to have no impact to cash from or used in operating, financing or investing on our consolidated cash flows statements.

The guidance permits two methods of adoption: retrospectively to each prior reporting period presented (full retrospective method), or retrospectively with the cumulative effect of initially applying the guidance recognized at the date of initial application (modified retrospective method). We plan to adopt the standard using the full retrospective method to restate each prior reporting period presented.

The standard will be effective for us beginning July 1, 2018, with early adoption permitted as of the original effective date of July 1, 2017. We plan to adopt the standard effective July 1, 2017. While our ability to early adopt using the full retrospective method depends on system readiness, including software procured from third-party providers, and completing our analysis of information necessary to restate prior period consolidated financial statements, we remain on schedule and have implemented key system functionality to enable the preparation of restated financial information.

We have reached conclusions on key accounting assessments related to the standard. However, we are finalizing our assessment and quantifying the impacts related to accounting for costs incurred to obtain a contract based on guidance issued by the FASB Transition Resource Group as part of their November 2016 meeting. We will continue to monitor and assess the impact of any changes to the standard and interpretations as they become available.

The most significant impact of the standard relates to our accounting for software license revenue. Specifically, under the standard we expect to recognize Windows 10 revenue predominantly at the time of billing rather than ratably over the life of the related device. We expect to recognize license revenue at the time of contract execution rather than over the subscription period from certain multi-year commercial software subscriptions that include both software licenses and Software Assurance. Due to the complexity of certain of our commercial license subscription contracts, the actual revenue recognition treatment required under the standard will depend on contract-specific terms and in some instances may vary from recognition at the time of billing. We expect revenue recognition related to our hardware, cloud offerings including Office 365, LinkedIn, and professional services to remain substantially unchanged.

We are nearing completion of retrospectively adjusting financial information for fiscal year 2016 and are progressing as planned for fiscal year 2017. We estimate our revenue would have been approximately $6 billion higher in fiscal year 2016 under the standard primarily due to the net change in Windows 10 revenue recognition.

Basic earnings per share (“EPS”) is computed based on the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period. Diluted EPS is computed based on the weighted average number of shares of common stock plus the effect of dilutive potential common shares outstanding during the period using the treasury stock method. Dilutive potential common shares include outstanding stock options and stock awards.

(In millions, except earnings per share)	Three Months Ended March 31,				Nine Months Ended March 31,
(In millions, except per share amounts)									Three Months Ended December 31,					Six Months Ended December 31,


	2017		2016		2017		2016		2017			2016		2017		2016

Net income available for common shareholders (A)	$	4,801	$	3,756	$	14,691	$	13,676
Net income (loss) available for common shareholders (A)									$	(6,302	)	$	6,267	$	274	$	11,934


Weighted average outstanding shares of common stock (B)		7,725		7,895		7,756		7,952		7,710			7,755		7,709		7,772
Dilutive effect of stock-based awards		88		90		84		89		0			75		90		81


Common stock and common stock equivalents (C)		7,813		7,985		7,840		8,041		7,710			7,830		7,799		7,853


Earnings Per Share
Earnings (Loss) Per Share

Basic (A/B)	$	0.62	$	0.48	$	1.89	$	1.72	$	(0.82	)	$	0.81	$	0.04	$	1.54
Diluted (A/C)	$	0.61	$	0.47	$	1.87	$	1.70	$	(0.82	)	$	0.80	$	0.04	$	1.52

Anti-dilutive stock-based awards excluded from the calculations of diluted EPS were immaterial during the periods presented. In periods where we recognized a net loss, we excluded the impact of potentially dilutive outstanding stock-based awards from the calculation of diluted loss per share as their inclusion would have an antidilutive effect.

(In millions)	Three Months Ended March 31,						Nine Months Ended March 31,						Three Months Ended December 31,						Six Months Ended December 31,


	2017			2016			2017			2016			2017			2016			2017				2016

Dividends and interest income	$	380		$	230		$	984		$	629		$	530		$	311		$	1,003		$	604
Interest expense		(609	)		(340	)		(1,567	)		(898	)		(698	)		(521	)		(1,370	)		(958	)
Net recognized gains on investments		790			85			1,893			193			768			698			1,341			1,103
Net losses on derivatives		(200	)		(155	)		(340	)		(414	)		(84	)		(46	)		(134	)		(140	)
Net losses on foreign currency remeasurements		0			(18	)		(134	)		(52	)		(60	)		(153	)		(69	)		(193	)
Other, net		(39	)		(49	)		(228	)		(156	)		34			(172	)		(5	)		(187	)


Total	$	322		$	(247	)	$	608		$	(698	)	$	490		$	117		$	766		$	229

Following are details of net recognized gains (losses) on ~~investments:~~investments during the periods reported:

(In millions)	Three Months Ended March 31,						Nine Months Ended March 31,						Three Months Ended December 31,						Six Months Ended December 31,


	2017			2016			2017			2016			2017			2016			2017			2016

Other-than-temporary impairments of investments	$	(15	)	$	(86	)	$	(54	)	$	(248	)	$	(24	)	$	(21	)	$	(30	)	$	(39	)
Realized gains from sales of available-for-sale securities		938			282			2,272			740			1,066			851			1,737			1,334
Realized losses from sales of available-for-sale securities		(133	)		(111	)		(325	)		(299	)		(274	)		(132	)		(366	)		(192	)


Total	$	790		$	85		$	1,893		$	193		$	768		$	698		$	1,341		$	1,103

The components of investments, including associated derivatives, were as follows:


(In millions)	Cost Basis		Unrealized Gains		Unrealized Losses			Recorded Basis		Cash and Cash Equivalents		Short-term Investments			Equity and Other Investments			Cost Basis	Unrealized Gains		Unrealized Losses			Recorded Basis		Cash and Cash Equivalents		Short-term Investments		Equity and Other Investments


March 31, 2017
December 31, 2017

Cash	$	3,390	$	0	$	0		$	3,390	$	3,390	$	0		$	0	$	3,877	$	0	$	0		$	3,877	$	3,877	$	0	$	0
Mutual funds		1,139		0		0			1,139		1,139		0			0		1,080		0		0			1,080		1,080		0		0
Commercial paper		536		0		0			536		337		199			0		1,533		0		0			1,533		904		629		0
Certificates of deposit		1,767		0		0			1,767		1,341		426			0		1,832		0		0			1,832		1,642		190		0
U.S. government and agency securities		104,688		75		(345	)		104,418		102		104,316			0		119,085		34		(746	)		118,373		4,465		113,908		0
Foreign government bonds		5,344		2		(16	)		5,330		404		4,926			0		6,605		2		(12	)		6,595		891		5,704		0
Mortgage- and asset-backed securities		4,241		16		(4	)		4,253		0		4,253			0		3,952		7		(7	)		3,952		0		3,952		0
Corporate notes and bonds		4,823		60		(17	)		4,866		0		4,866			0		5,172		48		(14	)		5,206		0		5,206		0
Municipal securities		284		38		0			322		0		322			0		284		47		0			331		0		331		0
Common and preferred stock		3,380		3,561		(79	)		6,862		0		0			6,862		1,697		1,707		(6	)		3,398		0		0		3,398
Other investments		516		0		0			516		0		(3	)		519		564		0		0			564		0		1		563


Total	$	130,108	$	3,752	$	(461	)	$	133,399	$	6,713	$	119,305		$	7,381	$	145,681	$	1,845	$	(785	)	$	146,741	$	12,859	$	129,921	$	3,961


(In millions)	Cost Basis		Unrealized Gains		Unrealized Losses			Recorded Basis		Cash and Cash Equivalents		Short-term Investments			Equity and Other Investments			Cost Basis	Unrealized Gains		Unrealized Losses			Recorded Basis		Cash and Cash Equivalents		Short-term Investments		Equity and Other Investments


June 30, 2016
June 30, 2017

Cash	$	3,501	$	0	$	0		$	3,501	$	3,501	$	0		$	0	$	3,624	$	0	$	0		$	3,624	$	3,624	$	0	$	0
Mutual funds		1,012		0		0			1,012		1,012		0			0		1,478		0		0			1,478		1,478		0		0
Commercial paper		298		0		0			298		298		0			0		319		0		0			319		69		250		0
Certificates of deposit		1,000		0		0			1,000		868		132			0		1,358		0		0			1,358		972		386		0
U.S. government and agency securities		89,970		245		(11	)		90,204		100		90,104			0		112,119		85		(360	)		111,844		16		111,828		0
Foreign government bonds		5,502		10		(18	)		5,494		731		4,763			0		5,276		2		(13	)		5,265		1,504		3,761		0
Mortgage- and asset-backed securities		4,789		21		(2	)		4,808		0		4,808			0		3,921		14		(4	)		3,931		0		3,931		0
Corporate notes and bonds		6,509		110		(35	)		6,584		0		6,584			0		4,786		61		(12	)		4,835		0		4,835		0
Municipal securities		285		57		0			342		0		342			0		284		43		0			327		0		327		0
Common and preferred stock		5,597		4,452		(236	)		9,813		0		0			9,813		2,472		3,062		(34	)		5,500		0		0		5,500
Other investments		615		0		0			615		0		(3	)		618		523		0		0			523		0		0		523


Total	$	119,078	$	4,895	$	(302	)	$	123,671	$	6,510	$	106,730		$	10,431	$	136,160	$	3,267	$	(423	)	$	139,004	$	7,663	$	125,318	$	6,023

As of ~~March~~December 31, 2017 and June 30, ~~2016,~~2017, the recorded bases of common and preferred stock that are restricted for more than one year or are not publicly traded were ~~$856 million~~$1.0 billion and ~~$767 million,~~$1.1 billion, respectively. These investments are carried at cost and are reviewed quarterly for indicators of other-than-temporary impairment. It is not practicable for us to reliably estimate the fair value of these investments.

We lend certain fixed-income and equity securities to increase investment returns. These transactions are accounted for as secured borrowings and the loaned securities continue to be carried as investments on our consolidated balance sheets. Cash and/or security interests are received as collateral for the loaned securities with the amount determined based upon the underlying security lent and the creditworthiness of the borrower. Cash received is recorded as an asset with a corresponding liability. As of ~~March~~December 31, 2017 and June 30, 2017, collateral received under agreements for loaned securities was ~~$4.6~~$4.3 billion ~~which~~and $3.7 billion, respectively, and was primarily comprised of U.S. government and agency securities. ~~As of June 30, 2016, collateral received was $294 million, which was primarily comprised of cash.~~

Investments with continuous unrealized losses for less than 12 months and 12 months or greater and their related fair values were as follows:

	Less than 12 Months					12 Months or Greater							Total Unrealized Losses			Less than 12 Months					12 Months or Greater								Total Unrealized Losses


(In millions)	Fair Value		Unrealized Losses			Fair Value		Unrealized Losses			Total Fair Value						Fair Value		Unrealized Losses			Fair Value		Unrealized Losses			Total Fair Value


March 31, 2017
December 31, 2017

U.S. government and agency securities	$	68,195	$	(336	)	$	373	$	(9	)	$	68,568	$	(345	)	$	101,552	$	(672	)	$	2,855	$	(74	)	$	104,407	$	(746	)
Foreign government bonds		5,281		(4	)		23		(12	)		5,304		(16	)		2,537		(1	)		34		(11	)		2,571		(12	)
Mortgage- and asset-backed securities		774		(3	)		198		(1	)		972		(4	)		1,317		(3	)		338		(4	)		1,655		(7	)
Corporate notes and bonds		658		(11	)		346		(6	)		1,004		(17	)		1,118		(6	)		439		(8	)		1,557		(14	)
Common and preferred stock		295		(25	)		233		(54	)		528		(79	)		17		0			36		(6	)		53		(6	)


Total	$	75,203	$	(379	)	$	1,173	$	(82	)	$	76,376	$	(461	)	$	106,541	$	(682	)	$	3,702	$	(103	)	$	110,243	$	(785	)

	Less than 12 Months					12 Months or Greater							Total Unrealized Losses			Less than 12 Months					12 Months or Greater								Total Unrealized Losses


(In millions)	Fair Value		Unrealized Losses			Fair Value		Unrealized Losses			Total Fair Value						Fair Value		Unrealized Losses			Fair Value		Unrealized Losses			Total Fair Value


June 30, 2016
June 30, 2017

U.S. government and agency securities	$	5,816	$	(3	)	$	432	$	(8	)	$	6,248	$	(11	)	$	87,558	$	(348	)	$	371	$	(12	)	$	87,929	$	(360	)
Foreign government bonds		3,452		(3	)		35		(15	)		3,487		(18	)		4,006		(2	)		23		(11	)		4,029		(13	)
Mortgage- and asset-backed securities		844		(1	)		322		(1	)		1,166		(2	)		1,068		(3	)		198		(1	)		1,266		(4	)
Corporate notes and bonds		1,180		(11	)		788		(24	)		1,968		(35	)		669		(8	)		177		(4	)		846		(12	)
Common and preferred stock		896		(147	)		390		(89	)		1,286		(236	)		69		(6	)		148		(28	)		217		(34	)


Total	$	12,188	$	(165	)	$	1,967	$	(137	)	$	14,155	$	(302	)	$	93,370	$	(367	)	$	917	$	(56	)	$	94,287	$	(423	)

Unrealized losses from fixed-income securities are primarily attributable to changes in interest rates. Unrealized losses from domestic and international equities are due to market price movements. Management does not believe any remaining unrealized losses represent other-than-temporary impairments based on our evaluation of available evidence.

(In millions)	Cost Basis		Estimated Fair Value		Cost Basis		Estimated Fair Value


March 31, 2017
December 31, 2017

Due in one year or less	$	16,644	$	16,637	$	19,448	$	19,447
Due after one year through five years		97,412		97,250		103,950		103,341
Due after five years through 10 years		6,536		6,512		14,143		14,083
Due after 10 years		1,091		1,093		922		951


Total	$	121,683	$	121,492	$	138,463	$	137,822

We use derivative instruments to manage risks related to foreign currencies, equity prices, interest rates, and credit; to enhance investment returns; and to facilitate portfolio diversification. Our objectives for holding derivatives include reducing, eliminating, and efficiently managing the economic impact of these exposures as effectively as possible.

Our derivative programs include strategies that both qualify and do not qualify for hedge accounting treatment. All notional amounts presented below are measured in U.S. dollar equivalents.

Certain forecasted transactions, assets, and liabilities are exposed to foreign currency risk. We monitor our foreign currency exposures daily to maximize the economic effectiveness of our foreign currency hedge positions. Option and forward contracts are used to hedge a portion of forecasted international revenue for up to three years in the future and are designated as cash flow hedging instruments. Principal currencies hedged include the euro, Japanese yen, British pound, Canadian dollar, and Australian dollar. As of ~~March~~December 31, 2017 and June 30, ~~2016,~~2017, the total notional amounts of these foreign exchange contracts sold were ~~$10.6~~$7.5 billion and ~~$8.4~~$8.9 billion, respectively.

Foreign currency risks related to certain non-U.S. dollar denominated securities are hedged using foreign exchange forward contracts that are designated as fair value hedging instruments. As of ~~March~~December 31, 2017 and June 30, ~~2016,~~2017, the total notional amounts of these foreign exchange contracts sold were ~~$5.2~~$5.6 billion and ~~$5.3~~$5.1 billion, respectively.

Certain options and forwards not designated as hedging instruments are also used to manage the variability in foreign exchange rates on certain balance sheet amounts and to manage other foreign currency exposures. As of ~~March~~December 31, 2017, the total notional amounts of these foreign exchange contracts purchased and sold were ~~$7.9~~$8.9 billion and ~~$6.3~~$10.4 billion, respectively. As of June 30, ~~2016,~~2017, the total notional amounts of these foreign exchange contracts purchased and sold were ~~$12.0~~$8.8 billion and ~~$11.7~~$10.6 billion, respectively.

Securities held in our equity and other investments portfolio are subject to market price risk. Market price risk is managed relative to broad-based global and domestic equity indices using certain convertible preferred investments, options, futures, and swap contracts not designated as hedging instruments. From time to time, to hedge our price risk, we may use and designate equity derivatives as hedging instruments, including puts, calls, swaps, and forwards. As of ~~March~~December 31, 2017, the total notional amounts of equity contracts purchased and sold for managing market price risk were ~~$1.3~~$1.5 billion and ~~$1.8~~$1.9 billion, respectively, of which ~~$1.1~~$1.4 billion and ~~$1.2~~$1.6 billion, respectively, were designated as hedging instruments. As of June 30, ~~2016,~~2017, the total notional amounts of equity contracts purchased and sold for managing market price risk were ~~$1.3~~$1.9 billion and ~~$2.2~~$2.4 billion, respectively, of which ~~$737 million~~$1.6 billion and ~~$986 million,~~$1.8 billion, respectively, were designated as hedging instruments.

Securities held in our fixed-income portfolio are subject to different interest rate risks based on their maturities. We manage the average maturity of our fixed-income portfolio to achieve economic returns that correlate to certain broad-based fixed-income indices using exchange-traded option and futures contracts, and over-the-counter swap and option contracts, none of which are designated as hedging instruments. As of ~~March~~December 31, 2017, the total notional amounts of fixed-interest rate contracts purchased and sold were ~~$438~~$584 million and ~~$393~~$377 million, respectively. As of June 30, ~~2016,~~2017, the total notional amounts of fixed-interest rate contracts purchased and sold were ~~$328~~$233 million and ~~$2.4 billion,~~$352 million, respectively.

In addition, we use “To Be Announced” forward purchase commitments of mortgage-backed assets to gain exposure to agency mortgage-backed securities. These meet the definition of a derivative instrument in cases where physical delivery of the assets is not taken at the earliest available delivery date. As of ~~March~~December 31, 2017 and June 30, ~~2016,~~2017, the total notional derivative amounts of mortgage contracts purchased were ~~$568~~$542 million and ~~$548~~$567 million, respectively.

Our fixed-income portfolio is diversified and consists primarily of investment-grade securities. We use credit default swap contracts, not designated as hedging instruments, to manage credit exposures relative to broad-based indices and to facilitate portfolio diversification. We use credit default swaps as they are a low-cost method of managing exposure to individual credit risks or groups of credit risks. As of ~~March~~December 31, 2017, the total notional amounts of credit contracts purchased and sold were ~~$312~~$240 million and ~~$107~~$48 million, respectively. As of June 30, ~~2016,~~2017, the total notional amounts of credit contracts purchased and sold were ~~$440~~$267 million and ~~$273~~$63 million, respectively.

We use broad-based commodity exposures to enhance portfolio returns and to facilitate portfolio diversification. We use swaps, futures, and option contracts, not designated as hedging instruments, to generate and manage exposures to broad-based commodity indices. We use derivatives on commodities as they can be low-cost

alternatives to the purchase and storage of a variety of commodities, including, but not limited to, precious metals, energy, and grain. As of March 31, 2017, the total notional amounts of commodity contracts purchased and sold were $306 million and $170 million, respectively. As of June 30, 2016, the total notional amounts of commodity contracts purchased and sold were $631 million and $162 million, respectively.

Certain of our counterparty agreements for derivative instruments contain provisions that require our issued and outstanding long-term unsecured debt to maintain an investment grade credit rating and require us to maintain minimum liquidity of $1.0 billion. To the extent we fail to meet these requirements, we will be required to post collateral, similar to the standard convention related to over-the-counter derivatives. As of ~~March~~December 31, 2017, our long-term unsecured debt rating was AAA, and cash investments were in excess of $1.0 billion. As a result, no collateral was required to be posted.

Derivative instruments are recognized as either assets or liabilities and are measured at fair value. The accounting for changes in the fair value of a derivative depends on the intended use of the derivative and the resulting designation.

For derivative instruments designated as fair value hedges, the gains (losses) are recognized in earnings in the periods of change together with the offsetting ~~losses (gains)~~(losses) gains on the hedged items attributed to the risk being hedged. For options designated as fair value hedges, changes in the time value are excluded from the assessment of hedge effectiveness and are recognized in earnings.

For derivative instruments designated as cash flow hedges, the effective portion of the gains (losses) on the derivatives is initially reported as a component of OCI and is subsequently recognized in earnings when the hedged exposure is recognized in earnings. For options designated as cash flow hedges, changes in the time value are excluded from the assessment of hedge effectiveness and are recognized in earnings. Gains (losses) on derivatives representing either hedge components excluded from the assessment of effectiveness or hedge ineffectiveness are recognized in earnings.

For derivative instruments that are not designated as hedges, gains (losses) from changes in fair values are primarily recognized in other income (expense), net. Other than those derivatives entered into for investment purposes, ~~such as commodity contracts,~~ the gains (losses) are generally economically offset by unrealized gains (losses) in the underlying available-for-sale securities, which are recorded as a component of OCI until the securities are sold or other-than-temporarily impaired, at which time the amounts are reclassified from ~~accumulated other comprehensive income (“AOCI”)~~AOCI into other income (expense), net.

The following table presents the fair values of derivative instruments designated as hedging instruments (“designated hedge derivatives”) and not designated as hedging instruments (“non-designated hedge derivatives”). The fair values exclude the impact of netting derivative assets and liabilities when a legally enforceable master netting agreement exists and fair value adjustments related to our own credit risk and counterparty credit risk:

	March 31, 2017																		June 30, 2016


	Assets												Liabilities						Assets									Liabilities			Assets												Liabilities


(In millions)	Short-term Investments			Other Current Assets			Equity and Other Investments			Other Long-term Assets			Other Current Liabilities			Other Long-term Liabilities			Short-term Investments			Other Current Assets			Equity and Other Investments			Other Current Liabilities			Short-term Investments			Other Current Assets			Equity and Other Investments			Other Long-term Assets			Other Current Liabilities			Other Long-term Liabilities


December 31, 2017

Non-designated Hedge Derivatives

Foreign exchange contracts	$	13		$	75		$	0		$	6		$	(117	)	$	(13	)	$	33		$	156		$	0		$	(296	)	$	5		$	145		$	0		$	32		$	(165	)	$	(5	)
Equity contracts		6			0			0			0			(13	)		0			23			0			0			(16	)		7			0			0			0			(1	)		0
Interest rate contracts		9			0			0			0			(4	)		0			10			0			0			(25	)		4			0			0			0			(5	)		0
Credit contracts		5			0			0			0			(2	)		0			6			0			0			(5	)		3			0			0			0			(1	)		0
Commodity contracts		0			0			0			0			(1	)		0			0			0			0			0


Total	$	33		$	75		$	0		$	6		$	(137	)	$	(13	)	$	72		$	156		$	0		$	(342	)	$	19		$	145		$	0		$	32		$	(172	)	$	(5	)


Designated Hedge Derivatives

Foreign exchange contracts	$	9		$	347		$	0		$	81		$	(126	)	$	0		$	1		$	392		$	0		$	(263	)	$	10		$	48		$	0		$	3		$	(27	)	$	(5	)
Equity contracts		0			0			82			0			(57	)		(55	)		0			0			18			(25	)		0			0			7			0			(328	)		0


Total	$	9		$	347		$	82		$	81		$	(183	)	$	(55	)	$	1		$	392		$	18		$	(288	)	$	10		$	48		$	7		$	3		$	(355	)	$	(5	)


Total gross amounts of derivatives	$	42		$	422		$	82		$	87		$	(320	)	$	(68	)	$	73		$	548		$	18		$	(630	)	$	29		$	193		$	7		$	35		$	(527	)	$	(10	)


Gross derivatives either offset or subject to an enforceable master netting agreement	$	40		$	422		$	82		$	87		$	(320	)	$	(68	)	$	69		$	548		$	18		$	(630	)	$	28		$	193		$	7		$	35		$	(526	)	$	(10	)
Gross amounts of derivatives offset on the balance sheet		(60	)		(106	)		(86	)		(18	)		208			59			(74	)		(302	)		(25	)		398			(30	)		(115	)		(7	)		(7	)		152			7


Net amounts presented on the balance sheet		(20	)		316			(4	)		69			(112	)		(9	)		(5	)		246			(7	)		(232	)		(2	)		78			0			28			(374	)		(3	)
Gross amounts of derivatives not offset on the balance sheet		0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0
Cash collateral received		0			0			0			0			(260	)		0			0			0			0			(250	)		0			0			0			0			(51	)		0


Net amount	$	(20	)	$	316		$	(4	)	$	69		$	(372	)	$	(9	)	$	(5	)	$	246		$	(7	)	$	(482	)	$	(2	)	$	78		$	0		$	28		$	(425	)	$	(3	)

	Assets																Liabilities


(In millions)	Short-term Investments			Other Current Assets				Equity and Other Investments				Other Long-term Assets				Other Current Liabilities				Other Long-term Liabilities


June 30, 2017

Non-designated Hedge Derivatives

Foreign exchange contracts	$	9			$	203			$	0			$	6			$	(134	)		$	(8	)
Equity contracts		3				0				0				0				(6	)			0
Interest rate contracts		3				0				0				0				(7	)			0
Credit contracts		5				0				0				0				(1	)			0


Total	$	20			$	203			$	0			$	6			$	(148	)		$	(8	)


Designated Hedge Derivatives

Foreign exchange contracts	$	80			$	133			$	0			$	0			$	(3	)		$	0
Equity contracts		0				0				67				0				(186	)			0


Total	$	80			$	133			$	67			$	0			$	(189	)		$	0


Total gross amounts of derivatives	$	100			$	336			$	67			$	6			$	(337	)		$	(8	)


Gross derivatives either offset or subject to an enforceable master netting agreement	$	100			$	336			$	67			$	6			$	(334	)		$	(8	)
Gross amounts of derivatives offset on the balance sheet		(20	)			(132	)			(67	)			(8	)			221				7


Net amounts presented on the balance sheet		80				204				0				(2	)			(113	)			(1	)
Gross amounts of derivatives not offset on the balance sheet		0				0				0				0				0				0
Cash collateral received		0				0				0				0				(228	)			0


Net amount	$	80			$	204			$	0			$	(2	)		$	(341	)		$	(1	)

Refer to Note 4 – Investments and Note 6 – Fair Value ~~Measurements.~~Measurements for further information.

We recognized in other income (expense), net the following gains (losses) on contracts designated as fair value hedges and their related hedged items:

(In millions)	Three Months Ended March 31,						Nine Months Ended March 31,						Three Months Ended December 31,						Six Months Ended December 31,


	2017			2016			2017			2016			2017			2016			2017			2016

Foreign Exchange Contracts

Derivatives	$	(248	)	$	(331	)	$	389		$	(364	)	$	14		$	685		$	36		$	637
Hedged items		257			340			(349	)		390			12			(674	)		10			(606	)


Total amount of ineffectiveness	$	9		$	9		$	40		$	26		$	26		$	11		$	46		$	31


Equity Contracts

Derivatives	$	(19	)	$	15		$	(36	)	$	(77	)	$	(71	)	$	(7	)	$	(307	)	$	(17	)
Hedged items		19			(15	)		36			77			71			7			307			17


Total amount of ineffectiveness	$	0		$	0		$	0		$	0		$	0		$	0		$	0		$	0


Amount of equity contracts excluded from effectiveness assessment	$	(25	)	$	(12	)	$	(29	)	$	(8	)	$	20		$	(1	)	$	60		$	(4	)

We recognized the following gains (losses) on foreign exchange contracts designated as cash flow hedges:

(In millions)	Three Months Ended March 31,						Nine Months Ended March 31,						Three Months Ended December 31,						Six Months Ended December 31,


	2017			2016			2017			2016			2017			2016			2017			2016

Effective Portion

Gains (losses) recognized in other comprehensive income (net of tax effects of $3, $(19), $7, and $24)	$	(60	)	$	(125	)	$	424		$	158
Gains reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income into revenue	$	167		$	171		$	414		$	461
Gains recognized in other comprehensive income (loss) (net of tax of $1, $3, $1, and $4)													$	10		$	449		$	15		$	484
Gains reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) into revenue														19			172			130			247

Amount Excluded from Effectiveness Assessment and Ineffective Portion

Losses recognized in other income (expense), net	$	(121	)	$	(86	)	$	(275	)	$	(240	)		(73	)		(84	)		(164	)		(154	)

We estimate that ~~$326~~$22 million of net derivative gains included in AOCI as of ~~March~~December 31, 2017 will be reclassified into earnings within the following 12 months. No significant amounts of gains (losses) were reclassified from AOCI into earnings as a result of forecasted transactions that failed to occur during the three and ~~nine~~six months ended ~~March~~December 31, 2017.

Gains (losses) from changes in fair values of derivatives that are not designated as hedges are primarily recognized in other income (expense), net. These amounts are shown in the table below, with the exception of gains (losses) on derivatives presented in income statement line items other than other income (expense), net, which were immaterial for the periods presented. Other than those derivatives entered into for investment purposes, ~~such as commodity contracts,~~ the gains (losses) below are generally economically offset by unrealized gains (losses) in the underlying available-for-sale securities and gains (losses) from foreign exchange rate changes on certain balance sheet amounts.


(In millions)	Three Months Ended March 31,						Nine Months Ended March 31,						Three Months Ended December 31,						Six Months Ended December 31,


	2017			2016			2017			2016			2017			2016			2017			2016

Foreign exchange contracts	$	(115	)	$	188		$	(120	)	$	113		$	(115	)	$	26		$	(184	)	$	(5	)
Equity contracts		(42	)		(19	)		(84	)		(15	)		(49	)		(25	)		(78	)		(42	)
Interest rate contracts		8			(4	)		2			4
Interest-rate contracts														(2	)		(10	)		9			(6	)
Credit contracts		1			1			5			(2	)		0			2			0			4
Commodity contracts		(18	)		(9	)		(18	)		(145	)
Other contracts														0			22			0			0


Total	$	(166	)	$	157		$	(215	)	$	(45	)	$	(166	)	$	15		$	(253	)	$	(49	)

We account for certain assets and liabilities at fair value. The hierarchy below lists three levels of fair value based on the extent to which inputs used in measuring fair value are observable in the market. We categorize each of our fair value measurements in one of these three levels based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety. These levels are:

We measure certain assets, including our cost and equity method investments, at fair value on a nonrecurring basis when they are deemed to be other-than-temporarily impaired. The fair values of these investments are determined based on valuation techniques using the best information available, and may include quoted market prices, market comparables, and discounted cash flow projections. An impairment charge is recorded when the cost of the investment exceeds its fair value and this condition is determined to be other-than-temporary.

Our other current financial assets and ~~our~~ current financial liabilities have fair values that approximate their carrying values.

The following tables present the fair value of our financial instruments that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis:

(In millions)		Level 1		Level 2		Level 3		Gross Fair Value		Netting	^(a)		Net Fair Value		Level 1		Level 2		Level 3		Gross Fair Value		Netting	^(a)		Net Fair Value


March 31, 2017
December 31, 2017

Assets

Mutual funds	$	1,139	$	0	$	0	$	1,139	$	0		$	1,139	$	1,080	$	0	$	0	$	1,080	$	0		$	1,080
Commercial paper		0		536		0		536		0			536		0		1,533		0		1,533		0			1,533
Certificates of deposit		0		1,767		0		1,767		0			1,767		0		1,832		0		1,832		0			1,832
U.S. government and agency securities		101,203		3,215		0		104,418		0			104,418		116,194		2,180		0		118,374		0			118,374
Foreign government bonds		1		5,443		0		5,444		0			5,444		15		6,598		0		6,613		0			6,613
Mortgage- and asset-backed securities		0		4,249		0		4,249		0			4,249		0		3,953		0		3,953		0			3,953
Corporate notes and bonds		0		4,765		1		4,766		0			4,766		1		5,181		6		5,188		0			5,188
Municipal securities		0		322		0		322		0			322		0		331		0		331		0			331
Common and preferred stock		4,112		1,877		18		6,007		0			6,007		969		1,392		18		2,379		0			2,379
Derivatives		1		658		0		659		(270	)		389		1		262		1		264		(159	)		105


Total	$	106,456	$	22,832	$	19	$	129,307	$	(270	)	$	129,037	$	118,260	$	23,262	$	25	$	141,547	$	(159	)	$	141,388


Liabilities

Derivatives and other	$	6	$	383	$	25	$	414	$	(267	)	$	147	$	3	$	534	$	37	$	574	$	(159	)	$	415

(In millions)		Level 1		Level 2		Level 3		Gross Fair Value		Netting	^(a)		Net Fair Value		Level 1		Level 2		Level 3		Gross Fair Value		Netting	^(a)		Net Fair Value


June 30, 2016
June 30, 2017

Assets

Mutual funds	$	1,012	$	0	$	0	$	1,012	$	0		$	1,012	$	1,478	$	0	$	0	$	1,478	$	0		$	1,478
Commercial paper		0		298		0		298		0			298		0		319		0		319		0			319
Certificates of deposit		0		1,000		0		1,000		0			1,000		0		1,358		0		1,358		0			1,358
U.S. government and agency securities		86,492		3,707		0		90,199		0			90,199		109,228		2,616		0		111,844		0			111,844
Foreign government bonds		10		5,705		0		5,715		0			5,715		0		5,187		0		5,187		0			5,187
Mortgage- and asset-backed securities		0		4,803		0		4,803		0			4,803		0		3,934		0		3,934		0			3,934
Corporate notes and bonds		0		6,361		1		6,362		0			6,362		0		4,829		1		4,830		0			4,830
Municipal securities		0		342		0		342		0			342		0		327		0		327		0			327
Common and preferred stock		6,918		2,114		18		9,050		0			9,050		2,414		1,994		18		4,426		0			4,426
Derivatives		6		633		0		639		(401	)		238		1		508		0		509		(227	)		282


Total	$	94,438	$	24,963	$	19	$	119,420	$	(401	)	$	119,019	$	113,121	$	21,072	$	19	$	134,212	$	(227	)	$	133,985


Liabilities

Derivatives and other	$	17	$	613	$	0	$	630	$	(398	)	$	232	$	0	$	345	$	39	$	384	$	(228	)	$	156

The changes in our Level 3 financial instruments that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis were immaterial during the periods presented.

The following table reconciles the total “Net Fair Value” of assets above to the balance sheet presentation of these same assets in Note 4 – Investments.

(In millions)


March 31, 2017				June 30, 2016
December 31, 2017							December 31, 2017				June 30, 2017

Net fair value of assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis	$	129,037		$	119,019			$	141,388		$	133,985
Cash		3,390			3,501				3,877			3,624
Common and preferred stock measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis		856			767				1,017			1,073
Other investments measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis		519			618				564			523
Less derivative net assets classified as other current and long-term assets		(385	)		(246	)			(106	)		(202	)
Other		(18	)		12				1			1


Recorded basis of investment components	$	133,399		$	123,671			$	146,741		$	139,004

During the three and ~~nine~~six months ended ~~March~~December 31, 2017 and 2016, we did not record any material other-than-temporary impairments on financial assets required to be measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis.

(In millions)


	March 31, 2017		June 30, 2016		December 31, 2017		June 30, 2017

Raw materials	$	555	$	612	$	491	$	797
Work in process		127		158		91		145
Finished goods		1,297		1,481		1,421		1,239


Total	$	1,979	$	2,251	$	2,003	$	2,181

On December 8, 2016, we completed our acquisition of all issued and outstanding shares of LinkedIn Corporation, the world’s largest professional network on the Internet, for a ~~preliminary~~ total purchase price of $27.0 billion. The purchase price consisted primarily ~~consisted~~ of cash of ~~$26.4~~$26.9 billion. The acquisition is expected to accelerate the growth of LinkedIn, Office 365, and Dynamics 365. The financial results of LinkedIn have been included in our consolidated financial statements since the date of the acquisition.

The purchase price allocation as of the date of the acquisition was based on a preliminary valuation and is subject to revision as more detailed analyses are completed and additional information about the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed becomes available.

~~The major classes of assets and liabilities to which we have preliminarily allocated the purchase price were as follows:~~

~~Following are the details of the purchase price allocated to the intangible assets acquired:~~

~~Our consolidated income statements include the following revenue and operating loss attributable to LinkedIn since the date of acquisition:~~

~~Following are the supplemental consolidated financial results of Microsoft Corporation on an unaudited pro forma basis, as if the acquisition had been consummated on July 1, 2015:~~

These pro forma results were based on estimates and assumptions, which we believe are reasonable. They are not the results that would have been realized had we been a combined company during the periods presented and are not necessarily indicative of our consolidated results of operations in future periods. The pro forma results include

adjustments related to purchase accounting, primarily amortization of intangible assets. Acquisition costs and other nonrecurring charges were immaterial and are included in the earliest period presented.

The measurement periods for the valuation of assets acquired and liabilities assumed end as soon as information on the facts and circumstances that existed as of the acquisition dates becomes available, but do not exceed 12 months. Adjustments in purchase price allocations may require a change in the amounts allocated to goodwill during the periods in which the adjustments are determined.

Any change in the goodwill amounts resulting from foreign currency translations and purchase accounting adjustments are presented as “Other” in the above table. Also included in “Other” are business dispositions and transfers between ~~business~~ segments due to reorganizations, as applicable.

The components of intangible assets, all of which are finite-lived, were as follows:

(In millions)	Gross Carrying Amount			Accumulated Amortization			Net Carrying Amount		Gross Carrying Amount		Accumulated Amortization			Net Carrying Amount		Gross Carrying Amount		Accumulated Amortization			Net Carrying Amount		Gross Carrying Amount		Accumulated Amortization			Net Carrying Amount


	March 31, 2017								June 30, 2016							December 31, 2017							June 30, 2017

Technology-based ^(a)	$	7,646		$	(3,952	)	$	3,694	$	5,970	$	(3,648	)	$	2,322	$	7,126	$	(4,334	)	$	2,792	$	7,765	$	(4,318	)	$	3,447
Customer-related																	4,022		(937	)		3,085		4,045		(692	)		3,353
Marketing-related		3,999			(759	)		3,240		1,869		(616	)		1,253		4,027		(958	)		3,069		4,016		(829	)		3,187
Contract-based		841			(715	)		126		796		(718	)		78		666		(578	)		88		841		(722	)		119
Customer-related		4,044			(557	)		3,487		465		(385	)		80


Total	$	16,530	^(b)	$	(5,983	)	$	10,547	$	9,100	$	(5,367	)	$	3,733	$	15,841	$	(6,807	)	$	9,034	$	16,667	$	(6,561	)	$	10,106

Intangible assets amortization expense was ~~$560~~$562 million and $1.1 billion for the three and ~~nine~~six months ended ~~March~~December 31, 2017, respectively, and ~~$249~~$315 million and ~~$740~~$529 million for the three and ~~nine~~six months ended March 31, 2016, respectively. Amortization of capitalized software was $14 million and $42 million for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2017, respectively, and $18 million and $55 million for the three and nine months ended MarchDecember 31, 2016, respectively.

The following table outlines the estimated future amortization expense related to intangible assets held as of ~~March~~December 31, 2017:

(In millions)


Year Ending June 30,

2017 (excluding the nine months ended March 31, 2017)	$	544
2018		2,145
2018 (excluding the six months ended December 31, 2017)			$	1,105
2019		1,660		1,700
2020		1,148		1,194
2021		970		1,005
2022				931
Thereafter		4,080		3,099


Total	$	10,547	$	9,034

As of ~~March~~December 31, 2017, we had ~~$7.2~~$12.5 billion of commercial paper issued and outstanding, with a weighted average interest rate of ~~0.86%~~1.31% and maturities ranging from 1522 days to ~~266~~196 days. As of June 30, ~~2016,~~2017, we had ~~$12.9~~$9.1 billion of commercial paper issued and outstanding, with a weighted average interest rate of ~~0.43%~~1.01% and maturities ranging from ~~1 day~~25 days to 99264 days. The estimated fair value of this commercial paper approximates its carrying value.

~~We currently have~~In October 2017, we entered into two new $5.0 billion credit facilities that expire on October 30, 2018 and October 31, ~~2017 and November 14, 2018, respectively.~~2022, respectively, which replaced our previous credit facilities. These credit facilities serve as a back-up for our commercial paper program. As of ~~March~~December 31, 2017, we were in compliance with the only financial covenant in both credit agreements, which requires us to maintain a coverage ratio of at least three times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization to interest expense, as defined in the credit agreements. No amounts were drawn against these credit facilities during any of the periods presented.

As of ~~March~~December 31, 2017, the total carrying value and estimated fair value of our long-term debt, including the current portion, were $76.8 billion and ~~$78.1~~$81.7 billion, respectively. As of June 30, ~~2016,~~2017, the total carrying value and estimated fair value of our long-term debt, including the current portion, were ~~$40.6~~$77.1 billion and ~~$44.0~~$80.3 billion, respectively. These estimated fair values are based on Level 2 inputs.

The components of our long-term debt, including the current portion, and the associated interest rates were as follows:

Due Date	Face Value March 31, 2017		Face Value June 30, 2016		Stated Interest Rate		Effective Interest Rate


(In millions, except interest rates)									Face Value December 31, 2017		Face Value June 30, 2017		Stated Interest Rate			Effective Interest Rate
	(In millions)

Notes

November 15, 2017	$	600	$	600		0.875%		1.084%	$	0	$	600		0.875%			1.084%
May 1, 2018		450		450		1.000%		1.106%		450		450		1.000%			1.106%
November 3, 2018		1,750		1,750		1.300%		1.396%		1,750		1,750		1.300%			1.396%
December 6, 2018		1,250		1,250		1.625%		1.824%		1,250		1,250		1.625%			1.824%
June 1, 2019		1,000		1,000		4.200%		4.379%		1,000		1,000		4.200%			4.379%
August 8, 2019 ^(a)		2,500		*		1.100%		1.203%
November 1, 2019 ^(b)		18		*		0.500%		0.500%
February 6, 2020 ^(c)		1,500		*		1.850%		1.952%
August 8, 2019										2,500		2,500		1.100%			1.203%
November 1, 2019										18		18		0.500%			0.500%
February 6, 2020										1,500		1,500		1.850%			1.952%
February 12, 2020		1,500		1,500		1.850%		1.935%		1,500		1,500		1.850%			1.935%
October 1, 2020		1,000		1,000		3.000%		3.137%		1,000		1,000		3.000%			3.137%
November 3, 2020		2,250		2,250		2.000%		2.093%		2,250		2,250		2.000%			2.093%
February 8, 2021		500		500		4.000%		4.082%		500		500		4.000%			4.082%
August 8, 2021 ^(a)		2,750		*		1.550%		1.642%
December 6, 2021 ⁽^d)		1,872		1,944		2.125%		2.233%
February 6, 2022 ^(c)		1,750		*		2.400%		2.520%
August 8, 2021										2,750		2,750		1.550%			1.642%
December 6, 2021 ^(a)										2,102		1,996		2.125%			2.233%
February 6, 2022										1,750		1,750		2.400%			2.520%
February 12, 2022		1,500		1,500		2.375%		2.466%		1,500		1,500		2.375%			2.466%
November 3, 2022		1,000		1,000		2.650%		2.717%		1,000		1,000		2.650%			2.717%
November 15, 2022		750		750		2.125%		2.239%		750		750		2.125%			2.239%
May 1, 2023		1,000		1,000		2.375%		2.465%		1,000		1,000		2.375%			2.465%
August 8, 2023 ^(a)		1,500		*		2.000%		2.101%
August 8, 2023										1,500		1,500		2.000%			2.101%
December 15, 2023		1,500		1,500		3.625%		3.726%		1,500		1,500		3.625%			3.726%
February 6, 2024 ^(c)		2,250		*		2.875%		3.041%
February 6, 2024										2,250		2,250		2.875%			3.041%
February 12, 2025		2,250		2,250		2.700%		2.772%		2,250		2,250		2.700%			2.772%
November 3, 2025		3,000		3,000		3.125%		3.176%		3,000		3,000		3.125%			3.176%
August 8, 2026 ^(a)		4,000		*		2.400%		2.464%
February 6, 2027 ^(c)		4,000		*		3.300%		3.383%
December 6, 2028 ^(d)		1,872		1,944		3.125%		3.218%
May 2, 2033 ^(d)		588		611		2.625%		2.690%
August 8, 2026										4,000		4,000		2.400%			2.464%
February 6, 2027										4,000		4,000		3.300%			3.383%
December 6, 2028 ^(a)										2,102		1,996		3.125%			3.218%
May 2, 2033 ^(a)										660		627		2.625%			2.690%
February 12, 2035		1,500		1,500		3.500%		3.604%		1,500		1,500		3.500%	��		3.604%
November 3, 2035		1,000		1,000		4.200%		4.260%		1,000		1,000		4.200%			4.260%
August 8, 2036 ^(a)		2,250		*		3.450%		3.510%
February 6, 2037 ^(c)		2,500		*		4.100%		4.152%
August 8, 2036										2,250		2,250		3.450%			3.510%
February 6, 2037										2,500		2,500		4.100%			4.152%
June 1, 2039		750		750		5.200%		5.240%		750		750		5.200%			5.240%
October 1, 2040		1,000		1,000		4.500%		4.567%		1,000		1,000		4.500%			4.567%
February 8, 2041		1,000		1,000		5.300%		5.361%		1,000		1,000		5.300%			5.361%
November 15, 2042		900		900		3.500%		3.571%		900		900		3.500%			3.571%
May 1, 2043		500		500		3.750%		3.829%		500		500		3.750%			3.829%
December 15, 2043		500		500		4.875%		4.918%		500		500		4.875%			4.918%
February 12, 2045		1,750		1,750		3.750%		3.800%		1,750		1,750		3.750%			3.800%
November 3, 2045		3,000		3,000		4.450%		4.492%		3,000		3,000		4.450%			4.492%
August 8, 2046 ^(a)		4,500		*		3.700%		3.743%
February 6, 2047 ^(c)		3,000		*		4.250%		4.287%
August 8, 2046										4,500		4,500		3.700%			3.743%
February 6, 2047										3,000		3,000		4.250%			4.287%
February 12, 2055		2,250		2,250		4.000%		4.063%		2,250		2,250		4.000%			4.063%
November 3, 2055		1,000		1,000		4.750%		4.782%		1,000		1,000		4.750%			4.782%
August 8, 2056 ^(a)		2,250		*		3.950%		4.033%
February 6, 2057 ^(c)		2,000		*		4.500%		4.528%
August 8, 2056										2,250		2,250		3.950%			4.033%
February 6, 2057										2,000		2,000		4.500%			4.528%


Total	$	77,550	$	40,949					$	77,482	$	77,837

The notes in the table above are senior unsecured obligations and rank equally with our other senior unsecured debt outstanding. Interest on these notes is paid semi-annually, except for the euro-denominated debt securities on which interest is paid annually. Effective July 1, 2016, we retrospectively adopted accounting guidance that requires debt issuance costs to be recorded as a deduction from the carrying amount of the debt liability, consistent with debt discounts. As of ~~March~~December 31, 2017 and June 30, ~~2016,~~2017, the ~~combined~~ aggregate ~~unamortized discount and~~ debt issuance costs and unamortized discount associated with our long-term debt, including the current portion, were ~~$729~~$688 million and ~~$392~~$715 million, respectively.

Income tax expense includes U.S. and international income taxes, and interest and penalties on uncertain tax positions. Certain income and expenses are not reported in tax returns and financial statements in the same year. The tax effect of such temporary differences is reported as deferred income taxes. Deferred tax assets are reported net of a valuation allowance when it is more likely than not that a tax benefit will not be realized. All deferred income taxes are classified as long-term on our consolidated balance sheets.

Our effective tax rate was 169% and 22% for the three months ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively, and 98% and 20% for the six months ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively. The increase in our effective tax rate for the ~~three months ended March 31, 2017~~current quarter and ~~2016~~year-to-date compared to the prior year was ~~19% and 25%, respectively, and our effective tax rate for each of~~primarily due to the ~~nine months ended March 31, 2017 and 2016 was 17%.~~ net charge related to the TCJA.

Our effective tax rate was ~~lower~~higher than the U.S. federal statutory rate primarily due to ~~earnings taxed~~the net charge related to the TCJA.

On December 22, 2017, the TCJA was enacted into law, which significantly changes existing U.S. tax law and includes numerous provisions that affect our business, such as imposing a one-time transition tax on deemed repatriation of deferred foreign income, reducing the U.S. federal statutory tax rate, and adopting a territorial tax system. The TCJA requires us to incur a one-time transition tax on deferred foreign income not previously subject to U.S. income tax at ~~lower rates~~a rate of 15.5% for foreign cash and certain other net current assets, and 8% on the remaining income. The TCJA also reduces the U.S. federal statutory tax rate from 35% to 21% effective January 1, 2018. For fiscal year 2018, our blended U.S. federal statutory tax rate is 28%. This is the result of using the tax rate of 35% for the first and second quarter of fiscal year 2018 and the reduced tax rate of 21% for the third and fourth quarter of fiscal year 2018. The TCJA includes a provision to tax global intangible low-taxed income (“GILTI”) of foreign subsidiaries and a base erosion anti-abuse tax (“BEAT”) measure that taxes certain payments between a U.S. corporation and its subsidiaries. The GILTI and BEAT provisions of the TCJA will be effective for us beginning July 1, 2018.

The TCJA is effective in ~~foreign jurisdictions resulting from producing~~the second quarter of fiscal year 2018. As of December 31, 2017, we have not completed our accounting for the tax effects of the TCJA. During the quarter, we recorded a provisional net charge based on reasonable estimates for those tax effects. The provisional net charge is subject to revisions as we complete our analysis of the TCJA, collect and ~~distributing~~prepare necessary data, and interpret any additional guidance issued by the U.S. Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), FASB, and other standard-setting and regulatory bodies. Adjustments may materially impact our ~~products~~provision for income taxes and ~~services through our foreign regional operations centers in Ireland, Singapore, and Puerto Rico.~~

~~This quarter’s~~ effective tax rate ~~was lower than~~in the ~~prior year’s third~~period in which the adjustments are made. Our accounting for the tax effects of the TCJA will be completed during the measurement period, which should not extend beyond one year from the enactment date. The impacts of our estimates are described further below.

During the second quarter ~~effective~~of fiscal year 2018, we recorded an estimated net charge of $13.8 billion related to the TCJA, due to the impact of the one-time transition tax ~~rate, primarily due to~~on the deemed repatriation of deferred foreign income of $17.8 billion, offset in part by the impact of changes in the ~~mix~~tax rate of ~~our income before~~$4.0 billion, primarily on deferred tax assets and liabilities.

We recorded an estimated $17.8 billion charge related to the transition tax, which was included in provision for income taxes ~~between~~on our consolidated income statements and income taxes on our consolidated balance sheets. We have not yet completed our accounting for the transition tax as our analysis of deferred foreign income is not complete. To calculate the transition tax, we estimated our deferred foreign income for fiscal year 2017 and the first and second quarter of fiscal year 2018 because these tax returns are not complete or due. The fiscal year 2017 and fiscal year 2018 taxable income will be known once the respective tax returns are complete and filed. In addition,

U.S. and foreign audit settlements may significantly impact the estimated transition tax. The impact of the U.S. and foreign ~~countries and~~audits on the transition tax will be known as the audits are concluded.

In addition, we recorded an ~~increase~~estimated $4.0 billion benefit from the impact of changes in the tax ~~benefits~~rate, primarily on deferred tax assets and liabilities, which was included in provision for income taxes on our consolidated income statements and deferred income taxes on our consolidated balance sheets. We remeasured our deferred taxes to reflect the reduced rate that will apply when these deferred taxes are settled or realized in future periods. We have not yet completed our accounting for the measurement of deferred taxes. To calculate the remeasurement of deferred taxes, we estimated when the existing deferred taxes will be settled or realized. The remeasurement of deferred taxes included in our financial statements will be subject to further revisions if our current estimates are different from our actual future operating results.

The TCJA subjects a U.S. corporation to tax on its GILTI. Due to the complexity of the new GILTI tax rules, we are continuing to evaluate this provision of the TCJA and the application of GAAP. Under GAAP, we can make an accounting policy election to either treat taxes due on the GILTI inclusion as a current period expense, or factor such amounts into our measurement of deferred taxes. We elected the deferred method and recorded an estimated $454 million benefit related to ~~stock-based compensation.~~

~~Tax contingencies and other income tax liabilities were $14.4 billion and $11.8 billion as of March 31, 2017 and June 30, 2016, respectively, and are~~GILTI, which is included in ~~other long-term liabilities. This increase relates primarily~~the net charge related to ~~current period intercompany transfer pricing and foreign tax credits.~~the TCJA.

While we settled a portion of the ~~Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”)~~IRS audit for tax years 2004 to 2006 during the third quarter of fiscal year 2011, and ~~settled~~ a portion of the IRS audit for tax years 2007 to 2009 during the first quarter of fiscal year 2016, we remain under audit for those years. In the second quarter of fiscal year 2018, we settled a portion of the IRS audit for tax years 2010 to 2013. We ~~also~~ continue to be subject to examination by the IRS for tax years 2010 to 2016. In February 2012, the IRS withdrew its 2011 Revenue Agents Report for tax years 2004 to 2006 and reopened the audit phase of the examination. As of ~~March~~December 31, 2017, the primary unresolved issue relates to transfer pricing, which could have a significant impact on our consolidated financial statements if not resolved favorably. We believe our allowances for income tax contingencies are adequate. We have not received a proposed assessment for the unresolved issues and do not expect a final resolution of these issues in the next 12 months. Based on the information currently available, we do not anticipate a significant increase or decrease to our tax contingencies for these issues within the next 12 months.

We are subject to income tax in many jurisdictions outside the U.S. Our operations in certain jurisdictions remain subject to examination for tax years 1996 to 2017, some of which are currently under audit by local tax authorities. The resolutions of these audits are not expected to be material to our consolidated financial statements.

Tax contingencies and other income tax liabilities were $13.8 billion and $13.5 billion as of December 31, 2017 and June 30, 2017, respectively, and are included in long-term income taxes on our consolidated balance sheets. This increase relates primarily to current period intercompany transfer pricing.

In June ~~2015,~~2017, management approved a ~~plan to restructure our phone business to better focus~~sales and ~~align resources (the “Phone Hardware Restructuring Plan”), under which we eliminated approximately 7,400 positions in fiscal year 2016.~~

marketing restructuring plan. In fiscal year ~~2015,~~2017, we ~~incurred restructuring charges of $780 million under the Phone Hardware Restructuring Plan, including~~recorded employee severance expenses ~~and other reorganization costs. In fiscal year 2016, we reversed $21~~of $306 million ~~of previously estimated restructuring charges~~primarily related to ~~contract termination costs.~~this sales and marketing restructuring plan. We do not expect to incur additional charges for this restructuring plan in subsequent years. The actions associated with ~~the Phone Hardware Restructuring Plan were substantially complete as of June 30, 2016, and~~this restructuring plan are expected to be completed by the end of fiscal year ~~2017.~~

In the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016, management approved restructuring plans that would result in job eliminations, primarily across our smartphone hardware business and global sales. In addition to the elimination of 1,850 positions that were announced in May 2016, approximately 2,850 roles globally will be reduced during fiscal year 2017 as an extension of the earlier plan. These actions are expected to be completed by the end of the current fiscal year.

In fiscal year 2016, we incurred restructuring charges of $501 million in connection with the 2016 restructuring plans, including severance expenses and other reorganization costs. We do not expect to incur additional charges for these restructuring plans in subsequent years.

Restructuring charges associated with each of these plans were included in impairment, integration, and restructuring expenses on our consolidated income statements, and were reflected in Corporate and Other in our table of operating income (loss) by segment.2018.

(In millions)		Severance			Other	^(a)		Total			Severance			Other	^(a)		Total


Restructuring liability as of June 30, 2016	$	470		$	239		$	709
Balance, as of June 30, 2017										$	373		$	59		$	432
Restructuring charges		0			0			0			0			0			0
Cash paid		(327	)		(76	)		(403	)		(292	)		(15	)		(307	)
Other		(7	)		(2	)		(9	)		0			(7	)		(7	)


Restructuring liability as of March 31, 2017	$	136		$	161		$	297
Balance, as of December 31, 2017										$	81		$	37		$	118

(In millions)


	March 31, 2017		June 30, 2016		December 31, 2017		June 30, 2017

Productivity and Business Processes	$	11,159	$	12,497	$	11,290	$	12,692
Intelligent Cloud		9,722		11,472		9,759		11,152
More Personal Computing		2,930		3,334		2,760		2,812
Corporate and Other ^(a)		11,922		6,606


Total	$	35,733	$	33,909	$	23,809	$	26,656

Revenue ~~from Windows 10 is primarily~~allocated to remaining performance obligations represents contracted revenue that has not yet been recognized at(“contracted not recognized revenue”), which includes unearned revenue and amounts that will be invoiced and recognized as revenue in future periods. Contracted not recognized revenue was $61 billion as of December 31, 2017, of which we expect to recognize approximately 60% of the ~~time of billing in~~revenue over the ~~More Personal Computing segment,~~next 12 months and the ~~deferral and subsequent recognition of revenue is reflected in Corporate and Other in the table above.~~remainder thereafter.

We have ~~capital~~operating and finance leases for datacenters, corporate offices, research and ~~corporate offices. As~~development facilities, retail stores, and certain equipment. Our leases have remaining lease terms of ~~March 31, 2017~~1 year to 20 years, some of which include options to extend the leases for up to 5 years, and ~~June 30, 2016, assets recorded under capital~~some of which include options to terminate the leases within 1 year.

The components of lease expense were $1.9 billion and $865 million, respectively, and accumulated depreciation associated with capital leases was $124 million and $57 million, respectively. For the three and nine months ended March 31, 2017, property and equipment acquired under capital leases was $296 million and $1.1 billion, respectively. For both the three and nine months ended March 31, 2016, property and equipment acquired under capital leases was $97 million. As of March 31, 2017 and June 30, 2016, capital lease obligations included in other current liabilities were $86 million and $25 million, respectively, and capital lease obligations included in other long-term liabilities were $1.7 billion and $761 million, respectively.as follows:

Maturities of lease ~~payments under non-cancellable capital leases as of March 31, 2017~~liabilities were as follows:

As of ~~March~~December 31, 2017, we ~~had~~have additional ~~purchase obligations~~operating and finance leases, primarily for ~~capital leases executed but~~datacenters, that have not yet ~~recorded~~commenced of ~~$4.1 billion.~~$237 million and $1.6 billion, respectively. These operating and finance leases will commence between fiscal year 2018 and fiscal year 2019 with lease terms of 1 year to 20 years.

IPCom GmbH & Co. (“IPCom”) is a German company that holds a large portfolio of mobile technology-related patents spanning about 170 patent families and addressing a broad range of cellular technologies. IPCom has asserted 19 of these patents in litigation against Nokia Corporation (“Nokia”) and many of the leading ~~cell~~cellular phone companies and operators. In November 2014, Microsoft and IPCom entered into a standstill agreement staying all of the pending litigation against Microsoft to permit the parties to pursue settlement ~~discussions.~~

InterDigital Technology Corporation and InterDigital Communications Corporation (collectively, “IDT”) filed four patent infringement cases against Nokia in the International Trade Commission (“ITC”) and in U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware between 2007 and 2013. We have been added to these cases as a defendant. IDT has cases pending against other defendants based on the same patents because most of the patents at issue allegedly relate to 3G and 4G wireless communications standards essential functionality. The cases involving us include three ITC investigations where IDT sought an order excluding importation of 3G and 4G phones into the U.S. and one active case in U.S. District Court in Delaware seeking an injunction and damages. Each of the ITC matters has been resolved in our favor. In September 2015, in an ~~inter partes~~ review the United States Patent Trial and Appeal Board issued a final written decision that deemed unpatentable all asserted claims of the patent remaining at issue in the Delaware case. IDT’s appeal of this decision was heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on April 7, 2017. The Delaware case has been stayed pending final completion of the ~~inter partes~~ review (including appeals and any subsequent proceedings in the Patent Office). We filed an antitrust complaint against IDT in the District of Delaware in August 2015 asserting violations of Section 2 of the Sherman Act, alleging unlawful exploitation of standard essential patents. That case is set for trial in September 2018.

We assumed from Nokia all potential liability due to Nokia’s alleged failure to pay “private copyright levies” in various European countries based upon sale of memory cards and mobile phones that incorporate blank memory. The levies are based upon a 2001 European Union (“EU”) Directive establishing a right for end users to make copies of copyrighted works for personal or private use, but also allowing the collection of levies based upon sales of blank media or recording devices to compensate copyright holders for private copying. Various collecting societies in EU countries initiated litigation against Nokia, stating it must pay levies not only based upon sales of blank memory cards, but also phones that include blank memory for data storage on the phones, regardless of actual usage of that memory. The most significant cases against Nokia were pending in Germany and Austria, due to both the high volume of sales and high levy amounts sought in these countries. We reached a settlement of the Austrian case in August 2016. In Germany, the only period fordiscussions, which ~~settlement has not been reached is 2004 through 2007. In July~~

2016, the German Supreme Court heard our appeal contesting the legality of the levy assessed on phones with music players and over five megabytes of memory. The Supreme Court issued a ruling in December 2016, finding that the levy may not be appropriate for phones that have the ability to receive music files only via Bluetooth or infrared inputs, and remanded for further proceedings. A new case schedule has not been set, and we are participating in industry-wide settlement negotiations with the collecting society. continue.

Other ~~patent~~Patent and ~~intellectual property claims~~Intellectual Property Claims

In addition to ~~these~~the IPCom cases, there were 4334 other patent infringement cases pending against Microsoft as of ~~March~~December 31, 2017.

Antitrust and unfair competition class action lawsuits were filed against us in British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec, Canada. All three have been certified on behalf of Canadian indirect purchasers who acquired licenses for Microsoft operating system software and/or productivity application software between 1998 and 2010.

The trial of the British Columbia action commenced in May 2016. The plaintiffs filed their case in chief in August 2016, setting out claims made, authorities, and evidence in support of their claims. A six-month oral hearing is ~~scheduled~~expected to ~~commence~~begin in ~~September 2017,~~summer 2018, consisting of cross examination on witness affidavits. The Ontario and Quebec cases are inactive.

China State Administration for Industry and Commerce ~~investigatio~~nInvestigation

In 2014, Microsoft was informed that China’s State Administration for Industry and Commerce (“SAIC”) had begun a formal investigation relating to China’s Anti-Monopoly Law, and the SAIC conducted onsite inspections of Microsoft offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Chengdu. SAIC has stated the investigation relates to compatibility, bundle sales, file verification issues related to Windows and Office software, and potentially other issues.

Nokia, along with other handset manufacturers and network operators, is a defendant in 1935 lawsuits filed in the Superior Court for the District of Columbia by individual plaintiffs who allege that radio emissions from cellular handsets caused their brain tumors and other adverse health effects. We assumed responsibility for these claims ~~as part of~~in our ~~acquisition of~~agreement to acquire Nokia’s Devices and Services business and have been substituted for the Nokia defendants. Nine of these cases were filed in 2002 and are consolidated for certain pre-trial proceedings; the remaining 10 cases are stayed. In a separate 2009 decision, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia held that adverse health effect claims arising from the use of cellular handsets that operate within the U.S. Federal Communications Commission radio frequency emission guidelines (“FCC Guidelines”) are pre-empted by federal law. The plaintiffs allege that their handsets either operated outside the FCC Guidelines or were manufactured before the FCC Guidelines went into effect. The lawsuits also allege an industry-wide conspiracy to manipulate the science and testing around emission guidelines.

In 2013, defendants in the consolidated cases moved to exclude plaintiffs’ expert evidence of general causation on the basis of flawed scientific methodologies. In 2014, the trial court granted in part and denied in part defendants’ motion to exclude plaintiffs’ general causation experts. The defendants filed an interlocutory appeal challenging the standard for evaluating expert scientific evidence, which the District of Columbia Court of Appeals heard en banc. In October 2016, the Court of Appeals issued its decision adopting the standard advocated by defendants and remanding the cases to the trial court for further proceedings under that standard. Plaintiffs have filed ~~a motion~~supplemental expert evidence, portions of which defendants have moved to ~~reopen discovery and file additional expert evidence.~~strike.

Nokia, along with other handset manufacturers and network operators, is a defendant in a 2013 class action lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court of British Columbia by a purported class of Canadians who have used cellular phones for

at least 1,600 hours, including a subclass of users with brain ~~tumors.~~tumors, alleging adverse health effects from cellular phone use. Microsoft was served with the complaint in June 2014 and has been substituted for the Nokia defendants. The litigation has been dormant for more than ~~two~~three years.

Current and former female Microsoft employees in certain engineering and information technology roles brought this class action in federal court in Seattle in 2015, alleging systemic gender discrimination in pay and promotions. The plaintiffs moved to certify the class in October 2017. Microsoft filed an opposition in January 2018, attaching an expert report showing no statistically significant disparity in pay and promotions between similarly situated men and women. The plaintiffs' reply is due in February 2018.

We also are subject to a variety of other claims and suits that arise from time to time in the ordinary course of our business. Although management currently believes that resolving claims against us, individually or in aggregate, will not have a material adverse impact on our consolidated financial statements, these matters are subject to inherent uncertainties and management’s view of these matters may change in the future.

As of ~~March~~December 31, 2017, we accrued aggregate legal liabilities of ~~$443~~$370 million. While we intend to defend these matters vigorously, adverse outcomes that we estimate could reach approximately ~~$1.5~~$1.3 billion in aggregate beyond recorded amounts are reasonably possible. Were unfavorable final outcomes to occur, there exists the possibility of a material adverse impact on our consolidated financial statements for the period in which the effects become reasonably estimable.

On September 16, 2013, our Board of Directors approved a share repurchase program authorizing up to $40.0 billion in share repurchases. This share repurchase program became effective on October 1, 2013, and was completed on December 22, 2016.

On September 20, 2016, our Board of Directors approved a share repurchase program authorizing up to an additional $40.0 billion in share repurchases. This share repurchase program commenced on December 22, 2016 following completion of the prior program approved on September 16, 2013, has no expiration date, and may be suspended or discontinued at any time without notice. As of ~~March~~December 31, 2017, ~~$38.4~~$33.4 billion remained of this $40.0 billion share repurchase program.

We repurchased the following shares of common stock under the share repurchase programs:

Shares repurchased during fiscal year 2018 were under the share repurchase program approved September 20, 2016. Shares repurchased during fiscal year 2017 were under the share repurchase program approved September 16, 2013. The above table excludes shares repurchased to settle ~~statutory~~ employee tax withholding related to the vesting of stock awards. All repurchases were made using cash resources.

The dividend declared on ~~March 14,~~November 29, 2017 was included in other current liabilities as of ~~March~~December 31, 2017.

The following table summarizes the changes in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) by component:

(In millions)

Three Months Ended
March 31,

Nine Months Ended
March 31,

2017

2016

2017

2016

Derivatives

Accumulated other comprehensive income balance, beginning of period

$
595

$
598

$
352

$
590

Unrealized gains (losses), net of tax effects of $3, $(19), $7, and $24

(60
)

(125
)

424

158

Reclassification adjustments for gains included in revenue

(167
)

(171
)

(414
)

(461
)
Tax expense included in provision for income taxes

2

11

8

26

Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income

(165
)

(160
)

(406
)

(435
)

Net current period other comprehensive income (loss)

(225
)

(285
)

18

(277
)

Accumulated other comprehensive income balance, end of period

$
370

$
313

$
370

$
313

Investments

Accumulated other comprehensive income balance, beginning of period

$
2,030

$
2,758

$
2,941

$
3,169

Unrealized gains, net of tax effects of $307, $217, $197, and $34

571

402

367

64

Reclassification adjustments for gains included in other income (expense), net

(779
)

(88
)

(1,867
)

(200
)
Tax expense included in provision for income taxes

273

31

654

70

Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income

(506
)

(57
)

(1,213
)

(130
)

Net current period other comprehensive income (loss)

65

345

(846
)

(66
)

Accumulated other comprehensive income balance, end of period

$
2,095

$
3,103

$
2,095

$
3,103



Translation adjustments and other

Accumulated other comprehensive loss balance, beginning of period

$
(2,113
)

$
(1,583
)

$
(1,756
)

$
(1,237
)
Translation adjustments and other, net of tax effects of $0, $3, $7, and $(18)

292

7

(65
)

(339
)

Accumulated other comprehensive loss balance, end of period

$
  (1,821
)

$
(1,576
)

$
  (1,821
)

$
(1,576
)

Accumulated other comprehensive income, end of period

$
644

$
  1,840

$
644

$
  1,840

(In millions)	Three Months Ended December 31,						Six Months Ended December 31,


		2017			2016			2017			2016

Derivatives

Balance, beginning of period	$	28		$	315		$	134		$	352
Unrealized gains, net of tax of $1, $3, $1, and $4		11			449			15			484

Reclassification adjustments for gains included in revenue		(19	)		(172	)		(130	)		(247	)
Tax expense included in provision for income taxes		1			3			2			6


Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income		(18	)		(169	)		(128	)		(241	)


Net change related to derivatives, net of tax of $0, $0, $(1), and $(2)		(7	)		280			(113	)		243


Balance, end of period	$	21		$	595		$	21		$	595


Investments

Balance, beginning of period	$	1,537		$	3,024		$	1,825		$	2,941
Unrealized gains (losses), net of tax of $(211), $(292), $(161), and $(110)		(390	)		(543	)		(317	)		(204	)

Reclassification adjustments for gains included in other income (expense), net		(751	)		(694	)		(1,306	)		(1,088	)
Tax expense included in provision for income taxes		263			243			457			381


Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income		(488	)		(451	)		(849	)		(707	)


Net change related to investments, net of tax of $(474), $(535), $(618), and $(491)		(878	)		(994	)		(1,166	)		(911	)


Balance, end of period	$	659		$	2,030		$	659		$	2,030


Translation adjustments and other

Balance, beginning of period	$	(1,039	)	$	(1,381	)	$	(1,332	)	$	(1,499	)
Translation adjustments and other, net of tax of $0, $0, $(1), and $7		(40	)		(592	)		253			(474	)


Balance, end of period	$	(1,079	)	$	(1,973	)	$	(1,079	)	$	(1,973	)


Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), end of period	$	(399	)	$	652		$	(399	)	$	652

In its operation of the business, management, including our chief operating decision maker, who is also our Chief Executive Officer, reviews certain financial information, including segmented internal profit and loss statements prepared on a basis not consistent with ~~U.S.~~ GAAP. During the periods presented, we reported our financial performance based on the following segments: Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing.

In December 2016, we completed our acquisition of LinkedIn. LinkedIn is reported as part of our Productivity and Business Processes segment. LinkedIn offers services that can be used by customers to transform the way they hire, market, sell, and learn on a global basis through Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, and Premium Subscriptions.

Our Productivity and Business Processes segment consists of products and services in our portfolio of productivity, communication, and information services, spanning a variety of devices and platforms. This segment primarily comprises:

Our Intelligent Cloud segment consists of our public, private, and hybrid server products and cloud services that can power modern business. This segment primarily comprises:

Our More Personal Computing segment consists of products and services geared towards harmonizing the interests of end users, developers, and IT professionals across ~~screens of~~ all ~~sizes.~~devices. This segment primarily comprises:

Corporate and Other includes adjustments to conform our internal accounting policies to U.S. GAAP, and impairment, integration, and restructuring expenses. Significant internal accounting policies that differ from U.S. GAAP relate to Windows 10 revenue recognition.

Revenue and costs are generally directly attributed to our segments. However, due to the integrated structure of our business, certain revenue recognized and costs incurred by one segment may benefit other segments. Revenue on

from certain contracts is allocated among the segments based on the relative value of the underlying products and services, which can include allocation based on actual prices charged, prices when sold separately, or estimated costs plus a profit margin. Cost of revenue is allocated in certain cases based on a relative revenue methodology. Operating expenses that are allocated primarily include those relating to marketing of products and services from which multiple segments benefit, and are generally allocated based on relative gross margin.

In addition, certain costs incurred at a corporate level that are identifiable and that benefit our segments are allocated to them. These allocated costs include costs of: legal, including settlements and fines; information technology; human resources; finance; excise taxes; field selling; shared facilities services; and customer service and support. Each allocation is measured differently based on the specific facts and circumstances of the costs being allocated. Certain corporate-level activity is not allocated to our segments, including impairment, integration, and restructuring expenses.

Segment revenue and operating income ~~(loss)~~ were as follows during the periods presented:


(In millions)		Three Months Ended March 31,						Nine Months Ended March 31,							Three Months Ended December 31,				Six Months Ended December 31,


		2017			2016			2017			2016				2017		2016		2017		2016

Revenue	Revenue													Revenue

Productivity and Business Processes		$	7,958		$	6,521		$	21,998		$	19,517			$	8,953	$	7,179	$	17,191	$		13,615
Intelligent Cloud			6,763			6,096			20,006			18,331				7,795		6,758		14,717			12,855
More Personal Computing			8,836			9,539			29,953			31,474				12,170		11,889		21,548			21,284
Corporate and Other ^(a)			(1,467	)		(1,625	)		(5,324	)		(4,616	)


Total		$	22,090		$	20,531		$	66,633		$	64,706			$	28,918	$	25,826	$	53,456	$		47,754


Operating Income														Operating Income

Productivity and Business Processes															$	3,337	$	3,053	$	6,343		$	5,958
Intelligent Cloud																2,832		2,291		4,969			4,068
More Personal Computing																2,510		2,561		5,075			4,594


Total															$	8,679	$	7,905	$	16,387		$	14,620

No sales to an individual customer or country other than the United States accounted for more than 10% of revenue for the three and six months ended December 31, 2017 or 2016. Revenue, classified by the major geographic areas in which our customers are located, was as follows:

Revenue from external customers, classified by significant product and service offerings, was as follows:

Our commercial cloud revenue, which primarily comprises Office 365 commercial, Azure, Dynamics 365, and other cloud properties, was $5.3 billion and $10.4 billion for the three and six months ended December 31, 2017, respectively, and $3.4 billion and $6.6 billion for the three and six months ended December 31, 2016, respectively. These amounts are primarily included in Office products and cloud services and server products and cloud services in the table above.

Assets are not allocated to segments for internal reporting presentations. A portion of amortization and depreciation is included with various other costs in an overhead allocation to each ~~segment, and~~segment; it is impracticable for us to separately identify the amount of amortization and depreciation by segment that is included in the measure of segment profit or loss.

We have reviewed the accompanying consolidated balance sheet of Microsoft Corporation and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of ~~March~~December 31, 2017, and the related consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income, cash flows, and stockholders’ equity for the three-month and ~~nine-month~~six-month periods ended ~~March~~December 31, 2017 and 2016. These interim financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management.

We conducted our reviews in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). A review of interim financial information consists principally of applying analytical procedures and making inquiries of persons responsible for financial and accounting matters. It is substantially less in scope than an audit conducted in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the objective of which is the expression of an opinion regarding the financial statements taken as a whole. Accordingly, we do not express such an opinion.

Based on our reviews, we are not aware of any material modifications that should be made to such consolidated interim financial statements for them to be in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

We have previously audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the consolidated balance sheet of the Company as of June 30, ~~2016,~~2017, and the related consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income, cash flows, and stockholders’ equity for the year then ended prior to retrospective adjustment for the changes in the Company's method of accounting for revenue from contracts with customers and for leases, (not presented herein); and in our report dated ~~July 28, 2016,~~August 2, 2017, we expressed an unqualified opinion on those consolidated financial statements. We also audited the adjustments described in Note 1 that were applied to retrospectively adjust the June 30, 2017 consolidated balance sheet of Microsoft Corporation and subsidiaries. In our opinion, such adjustments are appropriate and have been properly applied to the ~~information set forth~~previously issued consolidated balance sheet in deriving the accompanying retrospectively adjusted consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, ~~2016 is fairly stated, in all material respects, in relation to the consolidated balance sheet from which it has been derived.~~2017.

ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

This report includes estimates, projections, statements relating to our business plans, objectives, and expected operating results that are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements may appear throughout this report, including the following sections: “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and “Risk ~~Factors.”~~Factors” (Part II, Item 1A of this Form 10-Q). These forward-looking statements generally are identified by the words “believe,” “project,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “intend,” “strategy,” “future,” “opportunity,” “plan,” “may,” “should,” “will,” “would,” “will be,” “will continue,” “will likely result,” and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially. We describe risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and events to differ materially in ~~“Risk Factors” (Part II, Item 1A~~“Management’s Discussion and Analysis of ~~this Form 10-Q),~~Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk” (Part I, Item 3 of this Form 10-Q), and ~~“Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”~~“Risk Factors” (Part I,II, Item 21A of this Form 10-Q). We undertake no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether because of new information, future events, or otherwise.

The following Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (“MD&A”) is intended to help the reader understand the results of operations and financial condition of Microsoft Corporation. MD&A is provided as a supplement to, and should be read in conjunction with, our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, ~~2016,~~2017, and our ~~Financial Statements~~financial statements and the accompanying Notes to Financial Statements (Part 1,I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q).

Microsoft is a technology company whose mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We strive to create local opportunity, growth, and impact in every country around the world. Our strategy is to build best-in-class platforms and productivity services for ~~a mobile-first, cloud-first world.~~an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge infused with artificial intelligence. We develop, license, and support a wide range of software products, services, and devices that deliver new opportunities, greater convenience, and enhanced value to people’s lives. Our platforms and tools help drive small business productivity, large business competitiveness, and public-sector efficiency. They also support new startups, improve educational and health outcomes, and empower human ingenuity.

We generate revenue by licensing and supporting an array of software products, by offering a wide range of cloud-based and other services to consumers and businesses, by designing, manufacturing, and selling devices that integrate with our cloud-based services, and by delivering relevant online advertising to a global audience. Our most significant expenses are related to compensating employees; designing, manufacturing, marketing, and selling our products and services; datacenter costs in support of our cloud-based services; and income taxes.

Highlights*Highlights from the ~~third~~second quarter of fiscal year ~~2017~~2018 included:

~~PART~~On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) was enacted into law, which significantly changes existing U.S. tax law and includes numerous provisions that affect our business. During the second quarter of fiscal year 2018, we recorded a net charge of $13.8 billion related to the TCJA. Refer to Note 12 – Income Taxes of the Notes to Financial Statements (Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q) for further discussion.

We adopted the new accounting standards for revenue recognition and leases effective July 1, 2017. These new standards had a material impact on our consolidated financial statements. Beginning in fiscal year 2018, our financial results reflect adoption of the standards with prior periods restated accordingly. Refer to Note 1 – Accounting Policies of the Notes to Financial Statements (Part I, Item 21 of this Form 10-Q) for further discussion.

On December 8, 2016, we completed our acquisition of LinkedIn Corporation ~~(“LinkedIn”)~~ for a ~~preliminary~~ total purchase price of $27.0 billion. LinkedIn has been included in our consolidated results of operations since the date of acquisition. ~~See~~Refer to Note 8 – Business Combinations inof the Notes to Financial Statements (Part 1,I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q) for further discussion.

~~In November 2016, we completed the sale of our feature phone business for $350 million.~~

In July 2015, we announced a plan to restructure our phone business to better focus and align resources. In May 2016, we announced plans to further streamline our smartphone hardware business. These changes in the phone business reinforce our strategy to create a vibrant Windows ecosystem with a single set of experiences across our first-party device family and original equipment manufacturer (“OEM”) offerings. Part of this strategy involves focusing our phone devices on a narrower range of customer categories and differentiating through the combination of hardware and software we are uniquely positioned to offer. As anticipated, our change in phone strategy resulted in a reduction in units sold and associated expenses in fiscal year 2016, and this trend has continued in fiscal year 2017.

Our industry is dynamic and highly competitive, with frequent changes in both technologies and business models. Each industry shift is an opportunity to conceive new products, new technologies, or new ideas that can further transform the industry and our business. At Microsoft, we push the boundaries of what is possible through a broad range of research and development activities that seek to identify and address the changing demands of customers and users, industry trends, and competitive forces.

The markets for software, devices, and cloud-based services are dynamic and highly competitive. Our competitors are developing new software and devices, while also deploying competing cloud-based services for consumers and businesses. The devices and form factors customers prefer evolve rapidly, and influence how users access services in the cloud, and in some cases, the user’s choice of which suite of cloud-based services to use. We must continue to evolve and adapt over an extended time in pace with this changing environment. The investments we are making in infrastructure and devices will continue to increase our operating costs and may decrease our operating margins.

Our success is highly dependent on our ability to attract and retain qualified employees. We hire a mix of university and industry talent worldwide. Microsoft competes for talented individuals globally by offering an exceptional working environment, broad customer reach, scale in resources, the ability to grow one’s career across many different products and businesses, and competitive compensation and benefits. Aggregate demand for our software, services, and devices is correlated to global macroeconomic and geopolitical factors, which remain dynamic.

Our international operations provide a significant portion of our total revenue and expenses. Many of these revenue and expenses are denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. As a result, changes in foreign exchange rates may significantly affect revenue and expenses. ~~The strengthening~~Strengthening of the U.S. dollar relative to certain foreign currencies throughout ~~fiscal year 2016, and continuing into~~ fiscal year 2017 negatively impacted reported revenue and reduced reported expenses from our international operations. This trend has reversed in fiscal year 2018 and foreign currencies strengthening relative to the U.S. dollar have positively impacted our financial results.

~~See a discussion of these factors and other risks under~~Refer to Risk Factors (Part II, Item 1A of this Form 10-Q). for a discussion of these factors and other risks.

~~Our~~We expect our revenue ~~historically has fluctuated~~to fluctuate quarterly and ~~has generally been highest~~to be higher in the second ~~quarter~~and fourth quarters of our fiscal ~~year due to~~year. Second quarter revenue is driven by corporate ~~calendar~~ year-end spending trends in our major markets and holiday season spending by ~~consumers.~~consumers, and fourth quarter revenue is driven by the volume of multi-year on-premises contracts executed during the period.

The segment amounts included in MD&A are presented on a basis consistent with our internal management reporting. Segment information appearing in Note 18 – Segment Information in the Notes to Financial Statements (Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q) is also presented on this basis. All differences between our internal management

reporting basis and accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”), along with certain corporate-level and other activity, are included in Corporate and Other. During the periods presented, we reported our financial performance based on the following segments: Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing.

LinkedIn is reported as part of our Productivity and Business Processes segment. LinkedIn offers services that can be used by customers to transform the way they hire, market, sell, and learn on a global basis through Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, and Premium Subscriptions.

~~Additional information on our reportable segments is contained in Note 18 – Segment Information in the Notes to Financial Statements (Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q).~~

~~Three months ended March 31, 2017 compared with three months ended March 31, 2016~~

Revenue increased $1.6 billion or 8%, driven by growth in Productivity and Business Processes and Intelligent Cloud, offset in part by lower revenue from More Personal Computing. Productivity and Business Processes revenue increased, driven by the acquisition of LinkedIn and higher revenue from Office 365. Intelligent Cloud revenue increased, primarily due to higher revenue from server products and cloud services. More Personal Computing revenue decreased, mainly due to lower revenue from Devices, offset in part by higher revenue from Windows, Search advertising, and Gaming.

Operating income increased $311 million or 6%, primarily due to higher gross margin, offset in part by an increase in operating expenses. Operating income included an unfavorable foreign currency impact of 3%. Gross margin increased $1.2 billion or 10%, driven by higher revenue, offset in part by higher cost of revenue.

Diluted earnings per share (“EPS”) was $0.61 for the three months ended March 31, 2017. Current year diluted EPS was negatively impacted by the net revenue deferral from Windows 10, which resulted in a decrease in diluted EPS of $0.12. Diluted EPS was $0.47 for the three months ended March 31, 2016. Prior year diluted EPS was negatively impacted by the net revenue deferral from Windows 10, which resulted in a decrease in diluted EPS of $0.16.

~~Nine months ended March 31, 2017 compared with nine months ended March 31, 2016~~

Revenue increased $1.9 billion or 3%, driven by growth in Productivity and Business Processes and Intelligent Cloud, offset in part by lower revenue from More Personal Computing and an increase in the net revenue deferral from Windows 10. Windows 10 revenue is primarily recognized at the time of billing in the More Personal Computing segment, and the deferral and subsequent recognition of revenue is reflected in Corporate and Other. Productivity and Business Processes revenue increased, driven by higher revenue from Office 365 and the acquisition of LinkedIn. Intelligent Cloud revenue increased, primarily due to higher revenue from server products and cloud services. More Personal Computing revenue decreased, mainly due to lower revenue from Devices and Gaming, offset in part by higher revenue from Windows and Search advertising.

Operating income decreased slightly, primarily due to an increase in operating expenses, offset in part by higher gross margin. Operating income included an unfavorable foreign currency impact of 4%. Gross margin increased $923 million or 2%, driven by higher revenue, offset in part by higher cost of revenue. Gross margin included an unfavorable foreign currency impact of 2%.

Diluted EPS was $1.87 for the nine months ended March 31, 2017. Current year diluted EPS was negatively impacted by the net revenue deferral from Windows 10, which resulted in a decrease in diluted EPS of $0.45. Diluted EPS was $1.70 for the nine months ended March 31, 2016. Prior year diluted EPS was negatively impacted by the net revenue deferral from Windows 10, which resulted in a decrease in diluted EPS of $0.39.

(In millions, except percentages)

Three Months Ended
March 31,

Percentage
Change

Nine Months Ended
March 31,

Percentage
Change

2017

2016

2017

2016

Revenue

Productivity and Business Processes

$
7,958

$
6,521

22%

$
21,998

$
19,517

13%

Intelligent Cloud

6,763

6,096

11%

20,006

18,331

9%

More Personal Computing

8,836

9,539

(7)%

29,953

31,474

(5)%

Corporate and Other

(1,467
)

(1,625
)

10%

(5,324
)

(4,616
)

(15)%

Total

$
   22,090

$
   20,531

8%

$
   66,633

$
   64,706

3%

Operating income (loss)

Productivity and Business Processes

$
2,783

$
2,981

(7)%

$
9,159

$
9,429

(3)%

Intelligent Cloud

2,181

2,176

0%

6,637

7,135

(7)%

More Personal Computing

2,097

1,751

20%

6,524

5,154

27%

Corporate and Other

(1,467
)

(1,625
)

10%

(5,324
)

(4,616
)

(15)%

Total

$
5,594

$
5,283

6%

$
16,996

$
17,102

(1)%

We report our financial performance based on the following segments: Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing. The segment amounts included in MD&A are presented on a basis consistent with our internal management reporting. All differences between our internal management reporting basis and accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”), along with certain corporate-level and other activity, are included in Corporate and Other. We have recast certain previously reported amounts to conform to the way we internally manage and monitor segment performance.

Additional information on our reportable segments is contained in Note 19 – Segment Information and Geographic Data of the Notes to Financial Statements (Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q).

Consolidated results of operations include LinkedIn results since the date of acquisition on December 8, 2016. The three and six months ended December 31, 2017 include a full period of LinkedIn results, whereas the three and six months ended December 31, 2016 only include 23 days of LinkedIn results.

Adjusted net income and adjusted diluted earnings per share exclude the net charge related to the TCJA. Refer to Non-GAAP Financial Measures below for a reconciliation of our financial results reported in accordance with GAAP to non-GAAP financial results.

Three ~~months ended March~~Months Ended December 31, 2017 ~~compared~~Compared with ~~three months ended March~~Three Months Ended December 31, 2016

Revenue increased $3.1 billion or 12%, driven by growth across each of our segments. Productivity and Business Processes revenue increased, driven by LinkedIn and higher revenue from Office. Intelligent Cloud revenue increased, primarily due to higher revenue from server products and cloud services. More Personal Computing revenue increased, driven by higher revenue from Gaming and Search advertising, offset in part by lower revenue from phones.

Gross margin increased $1.9 billion or 12%, primarily due to growth in Productivity and Business Processes, including LinkedIn, and Intelligent Cloud. Gross margin percentage was relatively unchanged, with favorable segment sales mix, offset by margin percentage declines in More Personal Computing and Intelligent Cloud. Gross margin percentage included a 7-point improvement in commercial cloud gross margin, primarily across Azure and Office 365.

Operating income increased $774 million or 10%, primarily due to higher gross margin, offset in part by an increase in operating expenses. LinkedIn operating loss increased $69 million to $265 million, including $376 million of amortization of intangible assets. Key changes in expenses were:

Current year net loss and diluted loss per share were negatively impacted by the net charge related to TCJA, which resulted in a decrease to net income and diluted earnings per share of $13.8 billion and $1.78, respectively.

Six Months Ended December 31, 2017 Compared with Six Months Ended December 31, 2016

Revenue increased $5.7 billion or 12%, driven by growth across each of our segments. Productivity and Business Processes revenue increased, driven by LinkedIn and higher revenue from Office. Intelligent Cloud revenue increased, primarily due to higher revenue from server products and cloud services. More Personal Computing revenue increased, driven by higher revenue from Search advertising, Gaming, and Surface, offset by lower revenue from phones.

Gross margin increased $4.1 billion or 14%, primarily due to growth across each of our segments. Gross margin percentage increased, driven by margin percentage increase in More Personal Computing and favorable segment sales mix, offset in part by margin percentage decline in Intelligent Cloud. Gross margin percentage included an 8-point improvement in commercial cloud gross margin, primarily across Azure and Office 365.

Operating income increased $1.8 billion or 12%, primarily due to higher gross margin, offset in part by an increase in operating expenses. LinkedIn operating loss increased $363 million to $559 million, including $748 million of amortization of intangible assets. Key changes in expenses were:

Current year net income and diluted earnings per share were negatively impacted by the net charge related to TCJA, which resulted in a decrease to net income and diluted earnings per share of $13.8 billion and $1.76, respectively.

(In millions, except percentages)	Three Months Ended December 31,				Percentage Change		Six Months Ended December 31,				Percentage Change


	2017		2016					2017		2016

Revenue

Productivity and Business Processes	$	8,953	$	7,179		25%	$	17,191	$	13,615		26%
Intelligent Cloud		7,795		6,758		15%		14,717		12,855		14%
More Personal Computing		12,170		11,889		2%		21,548		21,284		1%


Total revenue	$	28,918	$	25,826		12%	$	53,456	$	47,754		12%


Operating Income

Productivity and Business Processes	$	3,337	$	3,053		9%	$	6,343	$	5,958		6%
Intelligent Cloud		2,832		2,291		24%		4,969		4,068		22%
More Personal Computing		2,510		2,561		(2)%		5,075		4,594		10%


Total operating income	$	8,679	$	7,905		10%	$	16,387	$	14,620		12%

Three Months Ended December 31, 2017 Compared with Three Months Ended December 31, 2016

Revenue increased ~~$1.4~~$1.8 billion or ~~22%~~25%, ~~driven by the acquisition of~~primarily due to LinkedIn and higher revenue from ~~Office 365.~~Office.

Operating income ~~decreased $198~~increased $284 million or 7%9%, primarily due to higher ~~operating expenses,~~gross margin, offset in part by ~~an increase in gross margin. Operating income included an unfavorable foreign currency impact of 3%.~~higher operating expenses.

Revenue increased ~~$667 million~~$1.0 billion or ~~11%~~15%, primarily due to higher revenue from server products and cloud services.

~~Operating income increased slightly, primarily due to higher gross margin, offset by higher operating expenses. Operating income included an unfavorable foreign currency impact of 3%.~~

~~Revenue decreased $703 million or 7%, mainly due to lower revenue from Devices, offset in part by higher revenue from Windows, Search advertising, and Gaming.~~

38Operating income increased $541 million or 24%, primarily due to higher gross margin, offset in part by higher operating expenses.

Revenue increased $281 million or 2%, primarily due to higher revenue from Gaming and Search advertising, offset in part by lower revenue from phones.

Operating income ~~increased $346~~decreased $51 million or ~~20%, due to lower operating expenses and slightly higher gross margin. Operating income included an unfavorable foreign currency impact of 3%.~~

~~Operating expenses decreased $324 million or 11%~~2%, primarily due to an increase in operating expenses.

Gross margin was relatively unchanged, driven by a ~~reduction~~decline in ~~phone~~Gaming, offset by an increase in Search advertising and Surface. Gross margin percentage decreased, primarily due to a gross margin percentage decline in Gaming.

Operating expenses increased $49 million or 2%, driven by investments in engineering and ~~Surface launch-related expenses~~the benefit of a legal settlement in the prior ~~year. Sales and marketing expenses decreased $188 million or 16%, research and development expenses decreased $86 million or 6%, and general and administrative expenses decreased $50 million or 13%.~~

~~Gross margin increased slightly, driven by lower cost of revenue,~~year, offset in part by ~~lower revenue. Gross margin included an unfavorable foreign currency impact of 2%. Cost of revenue decreased $725 million or 15%, driven by~~ a ~~reduction~~decrease in Windows marketing and phone ~~sales and lower Surface cost of revenue, offset in part by an increase in Xbox software and services cost of revenue.~~expenses.

~~Nine months ended March~~Six Months Ended December 31, 2017 ~~compared~~Compared with ~~nine months ended March~~Six Months Ended December 31, 2016

Productivity and Business Processes

Revenue increased ~~$2.5~~$3.6 billion or ~~13%~~26%, ~~driven by~~primarily due to LinkedIn and higher revenue from ~~Office 365 and the acquisition of LinkedIn.~~Office.

LinkedIn revenue ~~was $1.2~~increased $2.2 billion to $2.5 billion. LinkedIn revenue primarily ~~comprised~~consisted of revenue from Talent Solutions.

Office Commercial revenue increased ~~$900 million~~$1.1 billion or 6%10%, driven by ~~higher revenue from~~ Office 365 commercial revenue growth, mainly due to growth in subscribers, offset in part by lower revenue from products licensed on-premises, reflecting a continued shift to Office 365 commercial. ~~Revenue included an unfavorable foreign currency impact of 2%.~~

Office Consumer revenue increased ~~$326~~$199 million or ~~15%~~12%, driven by ~~higher revenue from~~ Office 365 consumer revenue growth, mainly due to growth in subscribers.

Dynamics revenue increased 9%12%, ~~due to higher~~driven by Dynamics 365 revenue ~~from Dynamics 365.~~growth.

Operating income ~~decreased $270~~increased $385 million or 3%6%, primarily due to higher ~~operating expenses,~~gross margin, offset in part by higher ~~gross margin. Operating income included an unfavorable foreign currency impact of 3%.~~operating expenses.

Operating expenses increased $1.3 billion or 20%, mainly due to LinkedIn expenses and investments in cloud engineering. Operating expenses included $1.3 billion related to our acquisition of LinkedIn, including $205 million of amortization of acquired intangible assets. Sales and marketing expenses increased $641 million or 18%, research and development expenses increased $579 million or 29%, and general and administrative expenses increased $96 million or 9%.

Gross margin increased ~~$1.0~~$2.6 billion or 7%24%, driven by ~~higher revenue, offset~~LinkedIn and growth in ~~part by higher cost of revenue. Cost of revenue increased $1.4 billion or 41%, driven by our acquisition of LinkedIn and~~Office. Gross margin percentage decreased, due to an increased mix of cloud ~~offerings. Cost~~offerings and LinkedIn, offset in part by gross margin percentage improvement in Office 365 commercial. LinkedIn cost of revenue ~~included $515~~increased $724 million ~~related~~ to ~~our acquisition~~$843 million, including $440 million of amortization for acquired intangible assets.

Operating expenses increased $2.2 billion or 47%, driven by LinkedIn expenses, investments in cloud engineering and commercial sales capacity, and the benefit of a legal settlement in the prior year. LinkedIn operating expenses increased $1.9 million to $2.2 billion, including ~~$290~~$308 million of amortization of acquired intangible assets.

Intelligent Cloud

Revenue increased ~~$1.7~~$1.9 billion or 9%14%, primarily due to higher revenue from server products and cloud services. ~~Revenue included an unfavorable foreign currency impact of 2%.~~

Server products and cloud services revenue ~~grew $1.7~~increased $1.8 billion or ~~12%~~18%, driven by Azure revenue growth of ~~100%~~94% and server products licensed on-premises revenue growth of ~~4%. Revenue included an unfavorable foreign currency impact of 2%~~3%.

39Enterprise Services revenue increased $80 million or 3%, driven by higher revenue from Premier Support Services, offset in part by a decline in revenue from custom support agreements.

Operating income increased $901 million or 22%, primarily due to higher gross margin, offset in part by higher operating expenses.

Gross margin increased $1.1 billion or 12%, driven by growth in server products and cloud services revenue and cloud services scale and efficiencies. Gross margin percentage decreased, due to an

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increased mix of cloud offerings and lower Enterprise Services ~~revenue decreased slightly, driven by a decline in revenue from custom support agreements,~~gross margin percentage, offset in part by ~~higher revenue from Premier Support Services and Microsoft Consulting Services.~~improvement in Azure gross margin percentage.

Operating income decreased $498 million or 7%, primarily due to higher operating expenses, offset in part by higher gross margin. Operating income included an unfavorable foreign currency impact of 3%.

Operating expenses increased $913 million or 14%, driven by investments in cloud engineering, sales capacity, and developer engagement. Sales and marketing expenses increased $484 million or 16% and research and development expenses increased $439 million or 18%.

~~Gross margin increased $415~~$158 million or 3%, driven by ~~higher revenue, offset~~investments in ~~part by higher cost of revenue. Gross margin included an unfavorable foreign currency impact of 2%. Cost of revenue increased $1.3 billion or 26%, driven by investments to increase~~commercial sales capacity and ~~meet demand for~~cloud engineering and the ~~capabilities~~benefit of ~~our cloud offerings.~~a legal settlement in the prior year.

More Personal Computing

Revenue ~~decreased $1.5 billion~~increased $264 million or 5%1%, ~~mainly~~primarily due to ~~lower~~higher revenue from ~~Devices~~Search advertising, Gaming, and ~~Gaming,~~Surface, offset in part by ~~higher~~lower revenue from ~~Windows and Search advertising.~~phones.

Windows revenue increased ~~$339 million or 3%, mainly due to higher revenue from~~slightly, driven by growth in Windows OEM, ~~and Windows Commercial.~~offset by a decline in patent licensing revenue. Windows OEM revenue increased 3%4%. Windows OEM Pro revenue grew 5%9%, outperforming the commercial PC market, primarily due to a higher mix of premium licenses sold. Windows OEM non-Pro revenue ~~grew 1%~~declined 3%, ~~outperforming~~below the consumer PC market, primarily due to ~~a higher mix~~lower volumes of ~~premium~~entry-level price devices sold. ~~Windows Commercial revenue grew 3%, driven by multi-year agreement revenue.~~

Search advertising revenue increased ~~$667~~$425 million or ~~17%~~14%. Search advertising revenue, excluding traffic acquisition costs, increased 9%15%, ~~primarily~~ driven by growth in Bing, due to higher revenue per search and search volume.

Gaming revenue ~~decreased $136~~increased $313 million or 2%6%, ~~primarily due to lower Xbox hardware revenue, offset in part~~driven by higher revenue from Xbox software and ~~services.~~services, offset in part by lower Xbox hardware ~~revenue decreased 20%, mainly due to lower prices of consoles sold and a decline in volume of consoles sold.~~revenue. Xbox software and services revenue increased 11%, ~~driven by~~primarily due to a higher volume of Xbox Live transactions, ~~and~~offset in part by a decline in revenue per transaction. Xbox hardware revenue decreased 2%.

Surface revenue increased $126 million or 6%, driven by a higher mix of premium devices sold, offset in part by a decrease in volume of devices sold.

Phone revenue decreased ~~$2.4 billion.~~$519 million.

Operating income increased ~~$1.4 billion~~$481 million or ~~27%~~10%, primarily due to ~~lower operating expenses and~~ higher gross margin. ~~Operating income included an unfavorable foreign currency impact of 3%.~~

Gross margin increased $492 million or 5%, driven by growth in Search advertising, Surface, and Windows. Gross margin percentage increased, due to gross margin percentage improvements in Devices and favorable sales mix.

Operating expenses ~~decreased $1.2 billion or 12%,~~relatively unchanged, driven by ~~a reduction~~investments in ~~phone expenses,~~engineering and the benefit of a legal settlement in the ~~current~~prior year, and Windows 10 and Surface launch-related expenses in the prior year. Sales and marketing expenses decreased $641 million or 15%, research and development expenses decreased $337 million or 8%, and general and administrative expenses decreased $222 million or 19%.

~~Gross margin increased $170 million or 1%, driven by lower cost of revenue,~~ offset in part by ~~lower revenue. Gross margin included an unfavorable foreign currency impact of 2%. Cost of revenue decreased $1.7 billion or 10%, driven by~~a decrease in Windows and Gaming marketing expenses and a reduction in phone ~~sales and lower Xbox hardware cost of revenue, offset in part by an increase in Search advertising traffic acquisition costs and Xbox software and services cost of revenue.~~expenses.

~~Corporate and Other~~

Corporate and Other revenue is comprised of revenue deferrals related to Windows 10. Corporate and Other operating income (loss) is comprised of Windows 10 revenue deferrals and corporate-level activity not specifically allocated to a segment, including impairment, integration, and restructuring expenses.

~~PART I~~

~~Item 2~~

~~Three months ended March 31, 2017 compared with three months ended March 31, 2016~~

Revenue increased and operating loss decreased, due to a $158 million decrease in the net revenue deferral from Windows 10. During the three months ended March 31, 2017 and 2016, we deferred net revenue from Windows 10 of $1.5 billion and $1.6 billion, respectively.

~~Nine months ended March 31, 2017 compared with nine months ended March 31, 2016~~

Revenue decreased and operating loss increased, due to a $708 million increase in the net revenue deferral from Windows 10. During the nine months ended March 31, 2017 and 2016, we deferred net revenue from Windows 10 of $5.3 billion and $4.6 billion, respectively.

OPERATING EXPENSES

Research and Development

(In millions, except percentages)	Three Months Ended March 31,				Percentage Change		Nine Months Ended March 31,				Percentage Change		Three Months Ended December 31,				Percentage Change		Six Months Ended December 31,					Percentage Change


	2017		2016				2017		2016				2017		2016					2017			2016

Research and development	$	3,355	$	2,980		13%	$	9,523	$	8,842		8%	$	3,504	$	3,062		14%	$		7,078	$	6,168		15%
As a percent of revenue		15%		15%		0ppt		14%		14%		0ppt		12%		12%		0ppt		13%			13%		0ppt

Research and development expenses include payroll, employee benefits, stock-based compensation expense, and other headcount-related expenses associated with product development. Research and development expenses also include third-party development and programming costs, localization costs incurred to translate software for international markets, and the amortization of purchased software ~~code.~~code and services content.

Three ~~months ended March~~Months Ended December 31, 2017 ~~compared~~Compared with ~~three months ended March~~Three Months Ended December 31, 2016

Research and development expenses increased ~~$375~~$442 million or ~~13%~~14%, primarily due to LinkedIn expenses and ~~increased~~ investments in cloud ~~engineering, offset in part by a reduction in phone expenses. Expenses included $320~~engineering. LinkedIn expenses increased $280 million ~~related~~ to ~~our acquisition of LinkedIn.~~$362 million.

~~Nine months ended March~~46

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Six Months Ended December 31, 2017 ~~compared~~Compared with ~~nine months ended March~~Six Months Ended December 31, 2016

Research and development expenses increased ~~$681~~$910 million or 8%15%, primarily due to LinkedIn expenses and ~~increased~~ investments in cloud ~~engineering, offset in part by a reduction in phone expenses. Expenses included $402~~engineering. LinkedIn expenses increased $625 million ~~related~~ to ~~our acquisition of LinkedIn.~~$707 million.

Sales and Marketing

(In millions, except percentages)	Three Months Ended March 31,				Percentage Change		Nine Months Ended March 31,				Percentage Change		Three Months Ended December 31,				Percentage Change		Six Months Ended December 31,					Percentage Change


	2017		2016				2017		2016				2017		2016					2017			2016

Sales and marketing	$	3,879	$	3,406		14%	$	11,183	$	10,699		5%	$	4,562	$	4,079		12%	$		8,374	$	7,297		15%
As a percent of revenue		18%		17%		1ppt		17%		17%		0ppt		16%		16%		0ppt		16%			15%		1ppt

Sales and marketing expenses include payroll, employee benefits, stock-based compensation expense, and other headcount-related expenses associated with sales and marketing personnel, and the costs of advertising, promotions, trade shows, seminars, and other programs.

Three ~~months ended March~~Months Ended December 31, 2017 ~~compared~~Compared with ~~three months ended March~~Three Months Ended December 31, 2016

Sales and marketing expenses increased ~~$473~~$483 million or ~~14%~~12%, primarily due to LinkedIn expenses and ~~increased~~ investments in commercial sales capacity, ~~for our commercial cloud,~~ offset in part by a ~~reduction~~decrease in ~~phone~~Windows marketing expenses. ~~Expenses included $518~~LinkedIn expenses increased $459 million ~~related~~ to ~~our acquisition of LinkedIn,~~$649 million, including ~~$153~~$154 million of amortization of acquired intangible assets.

~~Nine months ended March~~Six Months Ended December 31, 2017 ~~compared~~Compared with ~~nine months ended March~~Six Months Ended December 31, 2016

Sales and marketing expenses increased ~~$484 million~~$1.1 billion or 5%15%, primarily due to LinkedIn expenses and ~~increased~~ investments in commercial sales capacity, ~~for our commercial cloud,~~ offset in part by a ~~reduction in phone expenses, a~~ decrease in ~~bad debt expense, and~~ Windows ~~10 and Surface launch-related~~marketing expenses. LinkedIn expenses ~~in the prior year. Expenses included $713 million related~~increased $1.0 billion to ~~our acquisition of LinkedIn,~~$1.2 billion, including ~~$205~~$308 million of amortization of acquired intangible assets.

(In millions, except percentages)	Three Months Ended March 31,				Percentage Change		Nine Months Ended March 31,				Percentage Change		Three Months Ended December 31,				Percentage Change		Six Months Ended December 31,					Percentage Change


	2017		2016				2017		2016				2017		2016					2017			2016

General and administrative	$	1,202	$	1,140		5%	$	3,126	$	3,262		(4)%	$	1,109	$	879		26%	$		2,275	$	1,924		18%
As a percent of revenue		5%		6%		(1)ppt		5%		5%		0ppt		4%		3%		1ppt		4%			4%		0ppt

General and administrative expenses include payroll, employee benefits, stock-based compensation expense, severance expense, and other headcount-related expenses associated with finance, legal, facilities, certain human resources and other administrative personnel, certain taxes, and legal and other administrative fees.

Three ~~months ended March~~Months Ended December 31, 2017 ~~compared~~Compared with ~~three months ended March~~Three Months Ended December 31, 2016

General and administrative expenses increased $230 million or 26%, primarily due to LinkedIn expenses and the benefit of a legal settlement in the prior year. LinkedIn expenses increased $101 million to $134 million.

Six Months Ended December 31, 2017 Compared with Six Months Ended December 31, 2016

General and administrative expenses increased ~~$62~~$351 million or 5%18%, primarily due to LinkedIn expenses ~~offset in part by investments in infrastructure supporting our business transformation in the prior year~~ and ~~a reduction in phone expenses. Expenses included $127 million related to our acquisition of LinkedIn.~~

~~Nine months ended March 31, 2017 compared with nine months ended March 31, 2016~~

~~General and administrative expenses decreased $136 million or 4%, primarily due to~~ the benefit of a legal settlement in the ~~current year, a reduction in phone~~prior year. LinkedIn expenses ~~and lower employee-related expenses, offset in part by LinkedIn expenses. Expenses included $160~~increased $233 million ~~related~~ to ~~our acquisition of LinkedIn.~~$266 million.

(In millions)	Three Months Ended March 31,						Nine Months Ended March 31,						Three Months Ended December 31,						Six Months Ended December 31,


	2017			2016			2017			2016			2017			2016			2017			2016

Dividends and interest income	$	380		$	230		$	984		$	629		$	530		$	311		$	1,003		$	604
Interest expense		(609	)		(340	)		(1,567	)		(898	)		(698	)		(521	)		(1,370	)		(958	)
Net recognized gains on investments		790			85			1,893			193			768			698			1,341			1,103
Net losses on derivatives		(200	)		(155	)		(340	)		(414	)		(84	)		(46	)		(134	)		(140	)
Net losses on foreign currency remeasurements		0			(18	)		(134	)		(52	)		(60	)		(153	)		(69	)		(193	)
Other, net		(39	)		(49	)		(228	)		(156	)		34			(172	)		(5	)		(187	)


Total	$	322		$	(247	)	$	608		$	(698	)	$	490		$	117		$	766		$	229

We use derivative instruments to: manage risks related to foreign currencies, equity prices, interest rates, and credit; enhance investment returns; and facilitate portfolio diversification. Gains and losses from changes in fair values of derivatives that are not designated as hedges are primarily recognized in other income (expense), net. Other than those derivatives entered into for investment purposes, ~~such as commodity contracts,~~ the gains (losses) are generally economically offset by unrealized (losses) gains ~~(losses)~~ in the underlying available-for-sale securities and (losses) gains ~~(losses)~~ on certain balance sheet amounts from foreign exchange rate changes.

Three ~~months ended March~~Months Ended December 31, 2017 ~~compared~~Compared with ~~three months ended March~~Three Months Ended December 31, 2016

Dividends and interest income increased primarily due to higher portfolio balances and ~~yields.~~yields on fixed-income securities. Interest expense increased primarily due to higher outstanding long-term debt. Net recognized gains on investments increased primarily due to higher gains on sales of equity securities. ~~Net losses on derivatives increased due to higher losses on equity, foreign currency, and commodity derivatives, offset by~~Other, net reflects recognized gains ~~on interest rate derivatives~~from certain joint ventures in the current period ~~as compared to~~and recognized losses from divestitures and certain joint ventures in the prior period. ~~Other, net reflects recognized losses from certain joint ventures and divestitures.~~

~~Nine months ended March~~Six Months Ended December 31, 2017 ~~compared~~Compared with ~~nine months ended March~~Six Months Ended December 31, 2016

Dividends and interest income increased primarily due to higher portfolio balances and ~~yields.~~yields on fixed-income securities. Interest expense increased primarily due to higher outstanding long-term debt. Net recognized gains on investments increased primarily due to higher gains on sales of equity securities. ~~Net losses on derivatives decreased due to lower losses on commodity and foreign currency derivatives, offset in part by higher losses on equity derivatives.~~ Other, net reflects recognized losses from divestitures and certain joint ventures ~~and divestitures.~~in the prior period.

Our effective tax rate was 169% and 22% for the three months ended ~~March~~December 31, 2017 and 2016, ~~was 19%~~respectively, and ~~25%, respectively,~~98% and 20% for the six months ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively. The increase in our effective tax rate for ~~each of~~ the ~~nine months ended March 31, 2017~~current quarter and ~~2016~~year-to-date compared to the prior year was ~~17%.~~ primarily due to the net charge related to the TCJA.

Our effective tax rate was ~~lower~~higher than the U.S. federal statutory rate primarily due to ~~earnings taxed~~the net charge related to the TCJA.

fiscal year 2018. The TCJA includes a provision to tax global intangible low-taxed income (“GILTI”) of foreign subsidiaries and a base erosion anti-abuse tax (“BEAT”) measure that taxes certain payments between a U.S. corporation and its subsidiaries. The GILTI and BEAT provisions of the TCJA will be effective for us beginning July 1, 2018.

During the second quarter ~~effective~~of fiscal year 2018, we recorded an estimated net charge of $13.8 billion related to the TCJA, due to the impact of the one-time transition tax ~~rate, primarily due to~~on the deemed repatriation of deferred foreign income of $17.8 billion, offset in part by the impact of changes in the ~~mix~~tax rate of ~~our income before income taxes between the U.S.~~$4.0 billion, primarily on deferred tax assets and ~~foreign countries and an increase in the tax benefits related to stock-based compensation.~~liabilities.

Uncertain Tax contingencies and other income tax liabilities were $14.4 billion and $11.8 billion as of March 31, 2017 and June 30, 2016, respectively, and are included in other long-term liabilities. This increase relates primarily to current period intercompany transfer pricing and foreign tax credits.Positions

Adjusted net income and diluted earnings per share are non-GAAP financial measures which exclude the net charge related to the TCJA. We believe these non-GAAP measures aid investors by providing additional insight into our operational performance and help clarify trends affecting our business. For comparability of reporting, management considers non-GAAP measures in conjunction with GAAP financial results in evaluating business performance. These non-GAAP financial measures presented should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, the measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP.

The following table reconciles our financial results reported in accordance with GAAP to non-GAAP financial results:

Cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments totaled ~~$126.0~~$142.8 billion and $133.0 billion as of ~~March~~December 31, 2017 ~~compared with $113.2 billion as of~~and June 30, ~~2016.~~2017, respectively. Equity and other investments were ~~$7.4~~$4.0 billion and $6.0 billion as of ~~March~~December 31, 2017 ~~compared with $10.4 billion as of~~and June 30, ~~2016.~~2017, respectively. Our short-term investments are primarily intended to facilitate liquidity and ~~for~~ capital preservation. They consist predominantly of highly liquid investment-grade fixed-income securities, diversified among industries and individual issuers. The investments are predominantly U.S. dollar-denominated securities, but also include foreign currency-denominated securities ~~in order~~ to diversify risk. Our fixed-income investments are exposed to interest rate risk and credit risk. The credit risk and average maturity of our fixed-income portfolio are managed to achieve economic returns that correlate to certain fixed-income indices. The settlement risk related to

these investments is insignificant given that the short-term investments held are primarily highly liquid investment-grade fixed-income securities.

As a result of the ~~cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments as of March 31, 2017, $122.2 billion was held by~~TCJA, our ~~foreign subsidiaries and would be subject to material repatriation tax effects. The amount of~~ cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments held by foreign subsidiaries are no longer subject to ~~other restrictions~~U.S. tax on repatriation into the free flow of funds (primarily currency and other local regulatory) was $2.3 billion. As of March 31, 2017, approximately 86% of the cash equivalents and short-term investments held by our foreign subsidiaries were invested in U.S. government and agency securities, approximately 4% were invested in U.S. mortgage- and asset-backed securities, and approximately 3% were invested in corporate notes and bonds of U.S. companies, all of which are denominated in U.S. dollars. The remaining cash equivalents and short-term investments held by our foreign subsidiaries were primarily invested in foreign securities.

We lend certain fixed-income and equity securities to increase investment returns. The loaned securities continue to be carried as investments on our consolidated balance sheets. Cash and/or security interests are received as collateral for the loaned securities with the amount determined based upon the underlying security lent and the creditworthiness of the borrower. Cash collateral received is recorded as an asset with a corresponding liability. Our securities lending payable balance was ~~$201~~$26 million as of ~~March~~December 31, 2017. Our average and maximum securities lending payable balances were $188 million and $600 million, respectively, for the three months ended ~~March~~December 31, ~~2017 were $450 million and $1.3 billion, respectively.~~2017. Our average and maximum securities lending payable balances were $215 million and $600 million, respectively, for the ~~nine~~six months ended ~~March~~December 31, ~~2017 were $560 million and $1.5 billion, respectively.~~2017. Intra-year variances in the amount of securities loaned are mainly due to fluctuations in the demand for the securities.

In general, and where applicable, we use quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities to determine the fair value of our financial instruments. This pricing methodology applies to our Level 1 investments, such as U.S. government securities, domestic and international equities, and exchange-traded mutual funds. If quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities are not available to determine fair value, then we use quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities or inputs other than the quoted prices that are observable either directly or indirectly. This pricing methodology applies to our Level 2 investments such as foreign government bonds, corporate notes and ~~bonds, common and preferred stock, foreign government~~ bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities, U.S. government and agency securities, ~~and~~ certificates of ~~deposit.~~deposit, and common and preferred stock. Level 3 investments are valued using internally developed models with unobservable inputs. Assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis using unobservable inputs are an immaterial portion of our portfolio.

A majority of our investments are priced by pricing vendors and are generally Level 1 or Level 2 investments as these vendors either provide a quoted market price in an active market or use observable inputs for their pricing without applying significant adjustments. Broker pricing is used mainly when a quoted price is not available, the investment is not priced by our pricing vendors, or when a broker price is more reflective of fair values in the market in which the investment trades. Our broker-priced investments are generally classified as Level 2 investments because the broker prices these investments based on similar assets without applying significant adjustments. In addition, all of our broker-priced investments have a sufficient level of trading volume to demonstrate that the fair values used are appropriate for these investments. Our fair value processes include controls that are designed to ensure appropriate fair values are recorded. These controls include model validation, review of key model inputs, analysis of period-over-period fluctuations, and independent recalculation of prices where appropriate.

Cash from operations increased ~~$3.6~~$2.5 billion to ~~$28.5~~$20.3 billion for the ~~nine~~six months ended ~~March~~December 31, 2017, mainly due to an increase in cash received from customers, ~~and~~offset in part by an increase in cash paid to employees, an income tax refund received in the prior year for overpayment of estimated ~~taxes.~~taxes, and higher cash paid for interest on debt. Cash used in financing was $7.9 billion for the six months ended December 31, 2017, compared to cash from financing ~~increased $20.5~~of $17.3 billion ~~to $11.1 billion,~~for the six months ended December 31, 2016. The change was mainly due to ~~an $18.6~~a $27.8 billion ~~increase~~decrease in proceeds from issuances of debt, net of repayments, ~~and~~offset in part by a ~~$2.3~~$3.4 billion decrease in cash used for common stock ~~repurchases, offset in part by a $651 million increase in dividends paid.~~repurchases. Cash used in investing ~~increased $25.5~~decreased $26.0 billion to ~~$39.4~~$7.2 billion for the six months ended December 31, 2017, mainly due to a ~~$24.3~~$24.6 billion ~~increase~~decrease in cash used for acquisitions of companies, net of cash acquired, and purchases of intangibles and other assets, and a ~~$746 million increase~~$3.0 billion decrease in cash used for net investment purchases, sales, and ~~maturities, and a $375 million decrease in cash from securities lending activities.~~maturities.

We issued debt to take advantage of favorable pricing and liquidity in the debt markets, reflecting our credit rating and the low interest rate environment. The proceeds of these issuances were or will be used for general corporate purposes, which may include, among other things, funding for working capital, capital expenditures, repurchases of capital stock, acquisitions, and repayment of existing debt. ~~See~~Refer to Note 11 – Debt inof the Notes to Financial Statements (Part 1,I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q) for further discussion.

Unearned revenue ~~as of March 31, 2017 was~~is comprised mainly of unearned revenue ~~from volume licensing programs. Unearned revenue from~~related to volume licensing programs ~~represents customer billings for multi-year licensing arrangements paid for either at inception of the agreement or annually~~and includes Software Assurance (“SA”) and cloud services. Unearned revenue is generally billed upfront at the beginning of each annual coverage period ~~and accounted~~ for ~~as subscriptions with revenue~~multi-year agreements and recognized ratably over the coverage period. Unearned revenue ~~as of March 31, 2017~~ also ~~included~~includes payments for: Windows 10 licenses; post-delivery support and consulting services to be performed in the future; Office 365 subscriptions; LinkedIn; Xbox Live subscriptions; Dynamics business solutions products; Skype prepaid credits and subscriptions; andfor other offerings for which we have been paid in advance and earn the revenue when we ~~provide~~transfer control of the ~~service~~product or ~~software, or otherwise meet~~service. Refer to Note 1 – Accounting Policies of the ~~revenue recognition criteria.~~Notes to Financial Statements (Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q) for further discussion.

The following table outlines the expected future recognition of unearned revenue as of ~~March~~December 31, 2017:

(In millions)


Three Months Ending,

June 30, 2017	$	11,286
September 30, 2017		7,017
December 31, 2017		5,316
March 31, 2018		2,899	$	10,121
June 30, 2018				6,488
September 30, 2018				3,000
December 31, 2018				1,700
Thereafter		9,215		2,500


Total	$	35,733	$	23,809

If our customers choose to license cloud-based versions of our products and services rather than licensing transaction-based products and services, the associated revenue will shift from being recognized at the time of the transaction to being recognized over the subscription period or upon consumption, as applicable.

~~During~~For the ~~three and nine~~six months ended ~~March~~December 31, 2017, we repurchased ~~25 million shares and 147~~44 million shares of our common stock for ~~$1.6~~$3.4 billion ~~and $8.7 billion, respectively,~~ through our share repurchase programs. All repurchases were made using cash resources. ~~See~~Refer to Note 1617 – Stockholders’ Equity inof the Notes to Financial Statements (Part 1,I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q) for further discussion.

~~See~~Refer to Note 1617 – Stockholders’ Equity inof the Notes to Financial Statements (Part 1,I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q) for further discussion.

We provide indemnifications of varying scope and size to certain customers against claims of intellectual property infringement made by third parties arising from the use of our products and certain other matters. Additionally, we have agreed to cover damages resulting from breaches of certain security and privacy commitments in our cloud business. In evaluating estimated losses on these indemnifications, we consider factors such as the degree of probability of an unfavorable outcome and our ability to make a reasonable estimate of the amount of loss. These obligations did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements during the periods presented.

We will continue to invest in sales, marketing, product support infrastructure, and existing and advanced areas of technology, as well as continue making acquisitions that align with our business strategy. Additions to property and equipment will continue, including new facilities, datacenters, and computer systems for research and development, sales and marketing, support, and administrative staff. We expect capital expenditures to increase in coming years to support growth in our cloud offerings. We have operating and finance leases for ~~most U.S.~~datacenters, corporate offices, research and ~~international sales and support offices~~development facilities, retail stores, and certain equipment. We have not engaged in any related party transactions or arrangements with unconsolidated entities or other persons that are reasonably likely to materially affect liquidity or the availability of capital resources.

~~We earn a significant amount of our operating income outside the U.S., which is deemed to be permanently reinvested in foreign jurisdictions.~~ As a result ~~as discussed above under Cash, Cash Equivalents,~~of the TCJA, we are required to pay a one-time transition tax of $17.8 billion on deferred foreign income not previously subject to U.S. income tax. Under the TCJA, the transition tax is payable beginning in fiscal year 2019 interest-free over eight years, with 8% due in each of the first five years, 15% in year six, 20% in year seven, and ~~Investments, the majority of our cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments are held by foreign subsidiaries. We currently do not intend nor foresee a need to repatriate these funds.~~ 25% in year eight.

We expect existing ~~domestic~~ cash, cash equivalents, short-term investments, cash flows from operations, and access to capital markets to continue to be sufficient to fund our ~~domestic~~ operating activities and cash commitments for investing and financing activities, such as ~~regular quarterly~~ dividends, share repurchases, debt maturities, ~~and~~ material capital expenditures, and the transition tax related to the TCJA, for at least the next 12 months and thereafter for the foreseeable future. In addition, we expect existing foreign cash, cash equivalents, short-term investments, and cash flows from operations to continue to be sufficient to fund our foreign operating activities and cash commitments for investing activities, such as material capital expenditures, for at least the next 12 months and thereafter for the foreseeable future.

Should we require more capital in the U.S. than is generated by our operations domestically, for example to fund significant discretionary activities, such as business acquisitions and share repurchases, we could elect to repatriate future earnings from foreign jurisdictions or raise capital in the U.S. through debt or equity issuances. These alternatives could result in higher effective tax rates, increased interest expense, or dilution of our earnings. We have borrowed funds domestically and continue to believe we have the ability to do so at reasonable interest rates.

~~See~~Refer to Note 1 – Accounting Policies inof the Notes to Financial Statements (Part 1,I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q) for further discussion.

Our consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes are prepared in accordance with ~~U.S.~~ GAAP. Preparing consolidated financial statements requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue, and expenses. These estimates and assumptions are affected by management’s application of accounting policies. Critical accounting policies for us include revenue recognition, impairment of investment securities, goodwill, research and development costs, contingencies, income taxes, and inventories.

~~Revenue recognition for multiple-element arrangements requires judgment~~Our contracts with customers often include promises to ~~determine if~~transfer multiple ~~elements exist, whether elements can be accounted for as separate units of accounting, and if so, the fair value for each of the elements.~~

Judgment is also required to assess whether future releases of certain software represent new products or upgrades and enhancements to existing products. Certain volume licensing arrangements include a perpetual license for current products combined with rights to receive unspecified future versions of software products and services to a customer. Determining whether products and services are ~~accounted for as subscriptions, with billings recorded as unearned revenue and recognized as revenue ratably over the coverage period.~~considered distinct performance obligations that should be

Software updates are evaluated on a case-by-case basis to determine whether they meet the definition of an upgrade, which may require revenue to be deferred and recognized when the upgrade is delivered. If it is determined that implied post-contract customer support (“PCS”) is being provided, revenue from the arrangement is deferred and recognized over the implied PCS term. If updates are determined to not meet the definition of an upgrade, revenue is generally recognized as products are shipped or made available.

accounted for separately versus together may require significant judgment. When a cloud-based service includes both on-premises software licenses and cloud services, judgment is required to determine whether the software license is considered distinct and accounted for separately, or not distinct and accounted for together with the cloud service and recognized over time. Certain cloud services, primarily Office 365, depend on a significant level of ~~software,~~integration, interdependency, and interrelation between the desktop applications and cloud services, and ~~hardware. Where elements~~ are delivered over different periods of time, and when allowed under U.S. GAAP, revenue is allocated to the respective elements based on their relative selling prices at the inception of the arrangement, and revenue is recognizedaccounted for together as each element is delivered. We use a hierarchy to determine the fair value to be used for allocating revenue to elements: (i) vendor-specific objective evidence of fair value (“VSOE”), (ii) third-party evidence, and (iii) best estimate of selling price (“ESP”). For software elements, we follow the industry-specific software guidance which only allows for the use of VSOE in establishing fair value. Generally, VSOE is the price charged when the deliverable is sold separately or the price established by management for a product that is not yet sold if it is probable that the price will not change before introduction into the marketplace. ESPs are established as best estimates of what the selling prices would be if the deliverables were sold regularly on a stand-alone basis. Our process for determining ESPs requires judgment and considers multiple factors that may vary over time depending upon the unique facts and circumstances related to each deliverable.

Customers purchasing a Windows 10 license will receive unspecified updates and upgrades over the life of their Windows 10 device at no additional cost. As these updates and upgrades will not be sold on a stand-alone basis, we are unable to establish VSOE. Accordingly, revenueone performance obligation. Revenue from ~~licenses of Windows 10~~Office 365 is recognized ratably over the ~~estimated life~~period in which the cloud services are provided.

Judgment is required to determine the stand-alone selling price (“SSP") for each distinct performance obligation. We use a single amount to estimate SSP for items that are not sold separately, including on-premises licenses sold with SA, or software updates provided at no additional charge. We use a range of amounts to estimate SSP when we sell each of the ~~related device,~~products and services separately and need to determine whether there is a discount to be allocated based on the relative SSP of the various products and services.

Our products are generally sold with a right of return and we may provide other credits or incentives, which ~~ranges between two~~are accounted for as variable consideration when estimating the amount of revenue to ~~four years.~~recognize.

The new standard related to revenue recognition ~~will have~~had a material impact on our consolidated financial statements. ~~See~~Refer to Note 1 – Accounting Policies inof the Notes to Financial Statements (Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q) for further discussion.

We review investments quarterly for indicators of other-than-temporary impairment. This determination requires significant judgment. In making this judgment, we employ a systematic methodology quarterly that considers available quantitative and qualitative evidence in evaluating potential impairment of our investments. If the cost of an investment exceeds its fair value, we evaluate, among other factors, general market conditions, credit quality of debt instrument issuers, the duration and extent to which the fair value is less than cost, and for equity securities, our intent and ability to hold, or plans to sell, the investment. For fixed-income securities, we also evaluate whether we have plans to sell the security or it is more likely than not that we will be required to sell the security before recovery. We also consider specific adverse conditions related to the financial health of and business outlook for the investee, including industry and sector performance, changes in technology, and operational and financing cash flow factors. Once a decline in fair value is determined to be other-than-temporary, an impairment charge is recorded to other income (expense), net and a new cost basis in the investment is established. If market, industry, and/or investee conditions deteriorate, we may incur future impairments.

We allocate goodwill to reporting units based on the reporting unit expected to benefit from the business combination. We evaluate our reporting units on an annual basis and, if necessary, reassign goodwill using a relative fair value allocation approach. Goodwill is tested for impairment at the reporting unit level (operating segment or one level below an operating segment) on an annual basis (May 1 for us) and between annual tests if an event occurs or circumstances change that would more likely than not reduce the fair value of a reporting unit below its carrying value. These events or circumstances could include a significant change in the business climate, legal factors, operating performance indicators, competition, or sale or disposition of a significant portion of a reporting unit.

Application of the goodwill impairment test requires judgment, including the identification of reporting units, assignment of assets and liabilities to reporting units, assignment of goodwill to reporting units, and determination of the fair value of each reporting unit. The fair value of each reporting unit is estimated primarily through the use of a discounted cash flow methodology. This analysis requires significant judgments, including estimation of future cash flows, which is dependent on internal forecasts, estimation of the long-term rate of growth for our business, estimation of the useful life over which cash flows will occur, and determination of our weighted average cost of capital.

The estimates used to calculate the fair value of a reporting unit change from year to year based on operating results, market conditions, and other factors. Changes in these estimates and assumptions could materially affect the determination of fair value and goodwill impairment for each reporting unit.

Costs incurred internally in researching and developing a computer software product are charged to expense until technological feasibility has been established for the product. Once technological feasibility is established, all software costs are capitalized until the product is available for general release to customers. Judgment is required in determining when technological feasibility of a product is established. We have determined that technological feasibility for our software products is reached after all high-risk development issues have been resolved through coding and testing. Generally, this occurs shortly before the products are released to ~~manufacturing.~~production. The amortization of these costs is included in cost of revenue over the estimated life of the products.

The outcomes of legal proceedings and claims brought against us are subject to significant uncertainty. An estimated loss from a loss contingency such as a legal proceeding or claim is accrued by a charge to income if it is probable that an asset has been impaired or a liability has been incurred and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated. In determining whether a loss should be accrued we evaluate, among other factors, the degree of probability of an unfavorable outcome and the ability to make a reasonable estimate of the amount of loss. Changes in these factors could materially impact our consolidated financial statements.

The objectives of accounting for income taxes are to recognize the amount of taxes payable or refundable for the current year, and deferred tax liabilities and assets for the future tax consequences of events that have been recognized in an entity’s financial statements or tax returns. We recognize the tax benefit from an uncertain tax position only if it is more likely than not that the tax position will be sustained on examination by the taxing authorities, based on the technical merits of the position. The tax benefits recognized in the financial statements from such a position are measured based on the largest benefit that has a greater than 50% likelihood of being realized upon ultimate settlement. Accounting literature also provides guidance on derecognition of income tax assets and liabilities, classification of deferred income tax assets and liabilities, accounting for interest and penalties associated with tax positions, and income tax disclosures. Judgment is required in assessing the future tax consequences of events that have been recognized on our consolidated financial statements or tax returns. Variations in the actual outcome of these future tax consequences could materially impact our consolidated financial statements.

The TCJA significantly changes existing U.S. tax law and includes numerous provisions that affect our business. Refer to Note 12 – Income Taxes of the Notes to Financial Statements (Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q) for further discussion.

Inventories are stated at average cost, subject to the lower of cost or market. Cost includes materials, labor, and manufacturing overhead related to the purchase and production of inventories. We regularly review inventory quantities on hand, future purchase commitments with our suppliers, and the estimated utility of our inventory. These reviews include analysis of demand forecasts, product life cycle status, product development plans, current sales levels, pricing strategy, and component cost trends. If our review indicates a reduction in utility below carrying value, we reduce our inventory to a new cost basis through a charge to cost of revenue.

We are exposed to economic risk from foreign exchange rates, interest rates, credit risk, ~~equity prices,~~ and ~~commodity~~equity prices. A portion of these risks is hedged, but they may impact our consolidated financial statements.

Certain forecasted transactions, assets, and liabilities are exposed to foreign currency risk. We monitor our foreign currency exposures daily and use hedges where practicable to offset the risks and maximize the economic effectiveness of our foreign currency positions. Principal currencies hedged include the euro, Japanese yen, British pound, Canadian dollar, and Australian dollar.

Our fixed-income portfolio is diversified across credit sectors and maturities, consisting primarily of investment-grade securities. The credit risk and average maturity of the fixed-income portfolio is managed to achieve economic returns that correlate to certain global and domestic fixed-income indices. In addition, we use “To Be Announced” forward purchase commitments of mortgage-backed assets to gain exposure to agency mortgage-backed securities.

Our equity portfolio consists of global, developed, and emerging market securities that are subject to market price risk. We manage the securities relative to certain global and domestic indices and expect their economic risk and return to correlate with these indices.

We use broad-based commodity exposures to enhance portfolio returns and facilitate portfolio diversification. Our investment portfolio has exposure to a variety of commodities, including precious metals, energy, and grain. We manage these exposures relative to global commodity indices and expect their economic risk and return to correlate with these indices.

We use a value-at-risk (“VaR”) model to estimate and quantify our market risks. VaR is the expected loss, for a given confidence level, in the fair value of our portfolio due to adverse market movements over a defined time horizon. The VaR model is not intended to represent actual losses in fair value, including determinations of other-than-temporary losses in fair value in accordance with ~~U.S. GAAP,~~accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”), but is used as a risk estimation and management tool. The distribution of the potential changes in total market value of all holdings is computed based on the historical volatilities and correlations among foreign exchange rates, interest rates, ~~equity prices,~~ and ~~commodity~~equity prices, assuming normal market conditions.

The VaR is calculated as the total loss that will not be exceeded at the 97.5 percentile confidence level or, alternatively stated, the losses could exceed the VaR in 25 out of 1,000 cases. Several risk factors are not captured in the model, including liquidity risk, operational risk, and legal risk.

The following table sets forth the one-day VaR for substantially all of our ~~positions as of March 31, 2017 and June 30, 2016 and for the three months ended March 31, 2017:~~positions:

(In millions)	(In millions)											(In millions)


		March 31, 2017			June 30, 2016	Three Months Ended March 31, 2017							December 31, 2017			June 30, 2017	Three Months Ended December 31, 2017


Risk Categories						Average			High		Low						Average			High		Low

Foreign currency		$	126	$	92	$	153	$	178	$	126		$	187	$	114	$	204	$	230	$	183
Interest rate		$	153	$	58	$	135	$	155	$	116			180		152		163		183		152
Equity		$	83	$	157	$	107	$	127	$	83			25		54		33		37		25
Commodity		$	5	$	12	$	7	$	11	$	5

Total one-day VaR for the combined risk categories was ~~$229~~$275 million and $207 million as of ~~March 31, 2017 and $225 million as of June 30, 2016. The total VaR is 38% and 29% less as of March~~December 31, 2017 and June 30, ~~2016,~~2017, respectively. The total VaR is 30% and 35% less as of December 31, 2017 and June 30, 2017, respectively, than the sum of the separate risk categories in the table above due to the diversification benefit of the combination of risks.

Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, we have evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as required by Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(b) as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based on that evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that these disclosure controls and procedures are effective.

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended ~~March~~December 31, 2017 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting. We implemented internal controls to ensure we adequately evaluated our contracts and properly assessed the impact of the new accounting standards related to revenue recognition and leases on our financial statements to facilitate their adoption on July 1, 2017. There were no significant changes to our internal control over financial reporting due to the adoption of the new standards.

~~See~~Refer to Note 1516 – ~~Commitments and~~ Contingencies inof the Notes to Financial Statements (Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q) for information regarding legal proceedings in which we are involved.

Our operations and financial results are subject to various risks and uncertainties, including those described below, that could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows, and the trading price of our common stock.

We face intense competition across all markets for our products and services, which may lead to lower revenue or operating margins.

Our competitors range in size from diversified global companies with significant research and development resources to small, specialized firms whose narrower product lines may let them be more effective in deploying technical, marketing, and financial resources. Barriers to entry in many of our businesses are low and many of the areas in which we compete evolve rapidly with changing and disruptive technologies, shifting user needs, and frequent introductions of new products and services. Our ability to remain competitive depends on our success in making innovative products, devices, and services that appeal to businesses and consumers.

An important element of our business model has been to create platform-based ecosystems on which many participants can build diverse solutions. A well-established ecosystem creates beneficial network effects among users, application developers, and the platform provider that can accelerate growth. Establishing significant scale in the marketplace is necessary to achieve and maintain attractive margins. We face significant competition from firms that provide competing platforms, applications, and services.

The competitive pressures described above may cause decreased sales volumes, price reductions, and/or increased operating costs, such as for research and development, marketing, and sales incentives. This may lead to lower revenue, gross margins, and operating income.

Our increasing focus on services presents execution and competitive risks. A growing part of our business involves cloud-based services available across the spectrum of computing devices. Our strategic vision is to compete and grow by building best-in-class platforms and productivity services for ~~a mobile-first, cloud-first world.~~an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge infused with artificial intelligence. At the same time, our competitors are rapidly developing and deploying cloud-based services for consumers and business customers. Pricing and delivery models are evolving. Devices and form factors influence how users access services in the cloud and sometimes the user’s choice of which suite of cloud-based services to use. We are devoting significant resources to develop and deploy our cloud-based strategies. The Windows ecosystem must continue to evolve with this changing environment. We are undertaking cultural and organizational changes to drive accountability and eliminate obstacles to innovation. The Company’s investment in gaining insights from data is becoming central to the value of the services we deliver to customers, to our operational efficiency and key opportunities in monetization, customer perceptions of quality, and operational efficiency.Our ability to use data in this way may be constrained by regulatory developments that impede realizing the expected return from this investment.

Besides software development costs, we are incurring costs to build and maintain infrastructure to support cloud computing services. These costs will reduce the operating margins we have previously achieved. Whether we succeed in cloud-based services depends on our execution in several areas, including:

It is uncertain whether our strategies will attract the users or generate the revenue required to succeed. If we are not effective in executing organizational and technical changes to increase efficiency and accelerate innovation, or if we fail to generate sufficient usage of our new products and services, we may not grow revenue in line with the infrastructure and development investments described above. This may negatively impact gross margins and operating income.

We make significant investments in new products and services that may not achieve expected returns. We will continue to make significant investments in research, development, and marketing for existing products, services, and technologies, including the Windows operating system, ~~the~~ Microsoft Office, ~~system,~~ Bing, SQL Server, Windows Server, the Windows Store, ~~the~~ Microsoft Azure, ~~Services platform,~~ Office 365, other cloud-based offerings, Xbox Live, and ~~the Xbox entertainment platform.~~LinkedIn. We also invest in the development and acquisition of a variety of hardware for productivity,

communication, and entertainment including PCs, tablets, gaming devices, and ~~gaming devices.~~HoloLens. Investments in new technology are speculative. Commercial success depends on many factors, including innovativeness, developer support, and effective distribution and marketing. If customers do not perceive our latest offerings as providing significant new functionality or other value, they may reduce their purchases of new software and hardware products or upgrades, unfavorably affecting revenue. We may not achieve significant revenue from new product, service, and distribution channel investments for several years, if at all. New products and services may not be profitable, and even if they are profitable, operating margins for some new products and businesses will not be as high as the margins we have experienced historically.

~~The launch of Windows 10, with free upgrades to existing users of Windows 7 and 8.1, has been the most ambitious update effort we have ever undertaken.~~ We did extensive preparation and ongoing compatibility testing for applications and devices to help ensure a positive experience for our users installing Windows 10. ~~We also consistently promoted the update to Windows 7 and 8.1 users.~~ However, negative upgrade experiences could adversely affect the reception of Windows 10 in the marketplace and ~~may~~could lead to litigation or regulatory actions by customers and government agencies. In addition, we anticipate that Windows 10 will enable new post-license monetization opportunities beyond initial license revenues. Our inability to realize these opportunities to the extent we expect could have an adverse impact on our revenues. Finally, our practices for data collection, use, and management in Windows 10 are subject to regulatory review, and may result in decisions directing us to change these practices and imposing fines. If so, we could face negative public reaction, degraded user experiences, and reduced flexibility in product design.

Developing new technologies is complex. It can require long development and testing periods. Significant delays in new releases or significant problems in creating new products or services could adversely affect our revenue.

Acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic alliances may have an adverse effect on our business. We expect to continue making acquisitions and entering into joint ventures and strategic alliances as part of our long-term business strategy. In December 2016, we completed our acquisition of LinkedIn for $27.0 billion. The LinkedIn acquisition and other transactions and arrangements involve significant challenges and risks, including that they do not advance our business strategy, that we get an unsatisfactory return on our investment, that we have difficulty integrating and retaining new employees, business systems, and technology, or that they distract management from our other businesses. If an arrangement fails to adequately anticipate changing circumstances and interests of a party, it may result in early termination or renegotiation of the arrangement. The success of these transactions and arrangements will depend in part on our ability to leverage them to enhance our existing products and services or develop compelling new ones. It may take longer than expected to realize the full benefits from these transactions and arrangements, such as increased revenue, enhanced efficiencies, or increased market share, or the benefits may ultimately be smaller than we expected. These events could adversely affect our operating results or financial condition.

If our goodwill or amortizable intangible assets become impaired, we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings. We acquire other companies and intangible assets and may not realize all the economic benefit from those acquisitions, which could cause an impairment of goodwill or intangibles. We review our amortizable intangible assets for impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying value may not be recoverable. We test goodwill for impairment at least annually. Factors that may be a change in circumstances, indicating that the carrying value of our goodwill or amortizable intangible assets may not be recoverable, include a decline in our stock price and market capitalization, reduced future cash flow estimates, and slower growth rates in industry segments in which we participate. We may be required to record a significant charge on our consolidated financial statements during the period in which any impairment of our goodwill or amortizable intangible assets is determined, negatively affecting our results of operations. For example, in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2015, we recorded a $5.1 billion charge for the impairment of goodwill and a $2.2 billion charge for the impairment of intangible assets, and in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016 we recorded a $480 million charge for the impairment of intangible assets. The impairment charges for both periods related to our phone business. Our acquisition of LinkedIn resulted in a significant increase in our goodwill and intangible asset balances.

Protecting our intellectual property rights and combating unlicensed copying and use of our software and other intellectual property on a global basis is difficult. While piracy adversely affects U.S. revenue, the impact on revenue from outside the U.S. is more significant, particularly in countries where laws are less protective of intellectual

property rights. Our revenue in these markets may grow slower than the underlying device market. Similarly, the absence of harmonized patent laws makes it more difficult to ensure consistent respect for patent rights. Throughout the world, we educate users about the benefits of licensing genuine products and obtaining indemnification benefits for intellectual property risks, and we educate lawmakers about the advantages of a business climate where intellectual property rights are protected. Reductions in the legal protection for software intellectual property rights could adversely affect revenue.

We expend significant resources to patent the intellectual property we create with the expectation that we will generate revenues by incorporating that intellectual property in our products or services or, in some instances, by licensing our patents to others in return for a royalty. Changes in the law may weaken our ability to prevent the use of patented technology or collect revenue for licensing our patents. These include legislative changes and regulatory actions that make it more difficult to obtain injunctions, and the increasing use of legal process to challenge issued patents. Similarly, licensees of our patents may fail to satisfy their obligations to pay us royalties, or may contest the scope and extent of their obligations. Finally, the royalties we can obtain to monetize our intellectual property may decline because of the evolution of technology, selling price changes in products using licensed patents, or the difficulty of discovering infringements.

Third parties may claim we infringe their intellectual property rights. From time to time, others claim we infringe their intellectual property rights. The number of these claims may grow because of constant technological change in the markets in which we compete, the extensive patent coverage of existing technologies, the rapid rate of issuance of new patents, and our offering of first-party devices, such as ~~Surface and Lumia phones.~~Surface. To resolve these claims, we may enter into royalty and licensing agreements on terms that are less favorable than currently available, stop selling or redesign affected products or services, or pay damages to satisfy indemnification commitments with our customers. These outcomes may cause operating margins to decline. Besides money damages, in some jurisdictions plaintiffs can seek injunctive relief that may limit or prevent importing, marketing, and selling our products or services that have infringing technologies. In some countries, such as Germany, an injunction can be issued before the parties have fully litigated the validity of the underlying patents. We have paid significant amounts to settle claims related to the use of technology and intellectual property rights and to procure intellectual property rights as part of our strategy to manage this risk, and may continue to do so.

We may not be able to protect our source code from copying if there is an unauthorized disclosure of source code. Source code, the detailed program commands for our operating systems and other software programs, is critical to our business. Although we license portions of our application and operating system source code to several licensees, we take significant measures to protect the secrecy of large portions of our source code. If a significant portion of our source code leaks, we might lose future trade secret protection for that source code. It may become easier for third parties to compete with our products by copying functionality, which could adversely affect our revenue and operating margins. Unauthorized disclosure of source code also could increase the security risks described in the next paragraph.

We may not be able to protect information on our products and services from use by others. LinkedIn and other Microsoft products and services contain valuable information and content protected by contractual restrictions or technical measures. In certain cases, we have made commitments to our members and users to limit access to or use of this information. Changes in the law or interpretations of the law may weaken our ability to prevent third parties from scraping or gathering information or content through use of bots or other measures and using it for their own benefit, thus diminishing the value of our products and services.

Cyber-attacks and security vulnerabilities could lead to reduced revenue, increased costs, liability claims, or harm to our reputation or competitive position.

Threats to IT security can take a variety of forms. Individual and groups of hackers and sophisticated organizations, including state-sponsored organizations or nation-states, continuously undertake attacks that pose threats to our customers and our IT. These actors may use a wide variety of methods, which may include developing and deploying malicious software or exploiting vulnerabilities in hardware, software, or other infrastructure in order to attack our products and services ~~and~~or gain access to our networks and datacenters, using social engineering techniques to induce our employees, users, partners, or customers to disclose passwords or other sensitive information or take other actions to gain access to our data or our users’ or customers’ data, or acting in a coordinated manner to launch distributed denial of service or other coordinated attacks. Cyber threats are constantly evolving, increasing the difficulty of detecting and successfully defending against them. Cyber threats can have cascading impacts that unfold with increasing speed across our internal networks and systems and those of our partners and customers. Breaches of our network or data security could disrupt the security of our ~~internal~~ systems and business applications, impair our ability to provide services to our customers and protect the privacy of their data, result in product development delays, compromise confidential or technical business information harming our reputation or competitive position, result in theft or misuse of our intellectual property or other assets, require us to allocate more resources to improved technologies, or otherwise adversely affect our business.

In addition, our internal IT environment continues to evolve. Often, we are early adopters of new devices and technologies. We embrace new ways of sharing data and communicating internally and with partners and customers using methods such as social networking and other consumer-oriented technologies. Our business policies and internal security controls may not keep pace with these changes as new threats emerge.

The ~~Security~~security of our products and services is important in our customers’ decisions to purchase or use our products or services. Security threats are a challenge to companies like us whose business is technology products and services. Threats to our own IT infrastructure can also affect our customers. Customers using our cloud-based services rely on the security of our infrastructure, including hardware and other elements provided by third parties, to ensure the reliability of our services and the protection of their data. Hackers tend to focus their efforts on the most popular operating systems, programs, and services, including many of ours, and we expect that to continue. Hackers that acquire user account information at other companies can use that information to compromise our users’ accounts where accounts share the same attributes like passwords.

To defend against security threats, both to our internal IT systems, our cloud-based services, and ~~those of~~ our ~~customers,~~customers’ systems, we must continuously engineer more secure products and services, enhance security and reliability features, improve the deployment of software updates to address security vulnerabilities in our own products as well as those provided by others, develop mitigation technologies that help to secure customers from attacks even when software updates are not deployed, maintain the digital security infrastructure that protects the integrity of our network, products, and services, and provide customers security tools such as firewalls and anti-virus ~~software.~~software and information about the need to deploy security measures and the impact of doing so.

The cost of these steps could reduce our operating margins. If we fail to do these things well, actual or perceived security vulnerabilities in our products and services, data corruption issues, or reduced performance could harm our reputation and lead customers to reduce or delay future purchases of products or subscriptions to services, or to use competing products or services. Customers may also spend more on protecting their existing computer systems from attack, which could delay adoption of additional products or services. Customers may fail to update their systems, continue to run software or operating systems we no longer support, or may fail timely to install or enable security patches. Any of these actions by customers could adversely affect our reputation and revenue. Actual or perceived vulnerabilities may lead to claims against us. ~~Although our~~Our license agreements typically contain provisions that eliminate or limit our exposure to liability, but there is no assurance these provisions will withstand legal challenges. At times, to achieve commercial objectives, we may enter into agreements with larger liability exposure to customers. Legislative or regulatory action in these areas may increase the costs to develop, implement, or secure our products and services.

As illustrated by the recent Spectre and Meltdown threats, our products operate in conjunction with and are dependent on products and components across a broad ecosystem. If there is a security vulnerability in one of these components, and if there is a security exploit targeting it, we could face increased costs, liability claims, reduced revenue, or harm to our reputation or competitive position.

Disclosure of personal data could result in liability and harm our reputation. As we continue to grow the number and scale of our cloud-based offerings, we store and process increasingly large amounts of personally identifiable information of our customers. The continued occurrence of high-profile data breaches provides evidence of an external environment increasingly hostile to information security. Despite our efforts to improve the security controls across our business groups and geographies, it is possible our security controls over personal data, our training of employees and vendors on data security, and other practices we follow may not prevent the improper disclosure of customer data we or our vendors store and manage. Improper disclosure could harm our reputation, lead to legal exposure to customers, or subject us to liability under laws that protect personal data, resulting in increased costs or loss of revenue. Our software products and services also enable our customers to store and process personal data on-premises or, increasingly, in a cloud-based environment we host. Government authorities can sometimes require us to produce customer data in response to valid legal orders. In the U.S. and elsewhere, we advocate for transparency concerning these requests and appropriate limitations on government authority to compel disclosure. Despite our efforts to protect customer data, perceptions that the collection, use, and retention of personal information is not satisfactorily protected could inhibit sales of our products or services, and could limit adoption of our cloud-based solutions by consumers, businesses, and government entities. Additional security measures we may take to address customer concerns, or constraints on our flexibility to determine where and how to operate datacenters in response to customer expectations or governmental rules or actions, may cause higher operating expenses.

Abuse of our advertising or social platforms may harm our reputation or user engagement. For LinkedIn, Bing Ads, and other products and services that provide content or host ads that come from or can be influenced by third parties, our reputation or user engagement may be negatively affected by activity that is hostile or inappropriate to other people, by users impersonating other people or organizations, by use of our products or services to disseminate information that may be viewed as misleading or intended to manipulate the opinions of our users, or by the use of our products or services that violates our terms of service or otherwise for objectionable or illegal ends. Preventing these actions may require us to make substantial investments in people and technology and these investments may not be successful, adversely affecting our business and financial results.

We may have outages, data losses, and disruptions of our online services if we fail to maintain an adequate operations infrastructure. Our increasing user traffic, growth in services, and the complexity of our products and services demand more computing power. We spend substantial amounts to build, purchase, or lease datacenters and equipment and to upgrade our technology and network infrastructure to handle more traffic on our websites and in our datacenters. These demands continue to increase as we introduce new products and services and support the growth of existing services such as Bing, Exchange Online, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Account services, Office 365, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Skype, Xbox Live, Outlook.com, and Windows Stores. We are rapidly growing our business of providing a platform and back-end hosting for services provided by third parties to their end users. Maintaining, securing, and expanding this infrastructure is expensive and complex. It requires that we maintain an Internet

connectivity infrastructure that is robust and reliable within competitive and regulatory constraints that continue to evolve. Inefficiencies or operational failures, including temporary or permanent loss of customer data or insufficient Internet connectivity, could diminish the quality of our products, services, and user experience resulting in contractual liability, claims by customers and other third parties, regulatory actions, damage to our reputation, and loss of current and potential users, subscribers, and advertisers, each of which may harm our operating results and financial ~~condition.~~condition.

Government litigation and regulatory activity relating to competition rules may limit how we design and market our products. As a leading global software and device maker, ~~we are~~government agencies closely ~~scrutinized by government agencies~~scrutinize us under U.S. and foreign competition laws. An increasing number of governments are regulating competition law activities and this includes increased scrutiny in potentially large markets such as the European Union (“EU”), the U.S., and China. Some jurisdictions also allow competitors or consumers to assert claims of anti-competitive conduct. U.S. federal and state antitrust authorities have previously brought enforcement actions and continue to scrutinize our business.

The European Commission (“the Commission”) closely scrutinizes the design of high-volume Microsoft products and the terms on which we make certain technologies used in these products, such as file formats, programming interfaces, and protocols, available to other companies. Flagship product releases such as Windows 10 can receive significant scrutiny under competition laws. For example, in 2004, the Commission ordered us to create new versions of our Windows operating system that do not include certain multimedia technologies and to provide our competitors with specifications for how to implement certain proprietary Windows communications protocols in their own products. In 2009, the Commission accepted a set of commitments offered by Microsoft to address the Commission’s concerns relating to competition in web browsing software, including an undertaking to address Commission

concerns relating to interoperability. The web browsing commitments expired in 2014. The remaining obligations may limit our ability to innovate in Windows or other products in the future, diminish the developer appeal of the Windows platform, and increase our product development costs. The availability of licenses related to protocols and file formats may enable competitors to develop software products that better mimic the functionality of our products, which could hamper sales of our products.

Our portfolio of first-party devices continues to grow; at the same time our OEM partners offer a large variety of devices on our platforms. As a result, increasingly we both cooperate and compete with our OEM partners, creating a risk that we fail to do so in compliance with competition rules. Regulatory scrutiny in this area may increase. Certain foreign governments, particularly in China and other countries in Asia, have advanced arguments under their competition laws that exert downward pressure on royalties for our intellectual property. Because these jurisdictions only recently implemented competition laws, their enforcement activities are unpredictable.

Government regulatory actions and court decisions such as these may result in fines, or hinder our ability to provide the benefits of our software to consumers and businesses, reducing the attractiveness of our products and the revenue that come from them. New competition law actions could be initiated. The outcome of such actions, or steps taken to avoid them, could adversely affect us in a variety of ways, including:

Our global operations subject us to potential liability under anti-corruption, trade protection, and other laws and regulations. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other anti-corruption laws and regulations (“Anti-Corruption Laws”) prohibit corrupt payments by our employees, vendors, or agents. From time to time, we receive inquiries from authorities in the U.S. and elsewhere and reports from employees and others about our business activities outside the U.S. and our compliance with Anti-Corruption Laws. Specifically, we have been cooperating with authorities in the U.S. in connection with reports concerning our compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in various countries. While we devote substantial resources to our global compliance programs and have implemented policies,

training, and internal controls designed to reduce the risk of corrupt payments, our employees, vendors, or agents may violate our policies. Our failure to comply with Anti-Corruption Laws could result in significant fines and penalties, criminal sanctions against us, our officers, or our employees, prohibitions on the conduct of our business, and damage to our reputation. ~~Geopolitical instability may lead to sanctions and impact our ability to do business in some geographies.~~ Operations outside the U.S. may be affected by changes in trade protection laws, policies, and measures, sanctions, and other regulatory requirements affecting trade and investment. We may be subject to legal liability and reputational damage if we sell goods or services in violation of U.S. trade sanctions on countries such as Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Sudan, and Syria.

Other regulatory areas that may apply to our products and online services offerings include user privacy, telecommunications, data storage and protection, and online content. For example, regulators may take the position that our offerings such as Skype are covered by laws regulating telecommunications services. Data protection authorities may assert that our collection, use, and management of customer data is inconsistent with their laws and regulations. Applying these laws and regulations to our business is often unclear, subject to change over time, and sometimes may conflict from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Additionally, these laws and governments’ approach to their enforcement, and our products and services, are continuing to evolve. Compliance with these types of regulation may involve significant costs or require changes in products or business practices that result in reduced revenue. Noncompliance could result in the imposition of penalties or orders we stop the alleged noncompliant activity.

Laws and regulations relating to the handling of personal data may impede the adoption of our services or result in increased costs, legal claims, or fines against us. The growth of our Internet- and cloud-based services internationally relies increasingly on the movement of data across national boundaries. Legal requirements relating to the collection, storage, handling, and transfer of personal data continue to evolve. For example, the EU and the U.S. formally entered into a new framework in July 2016 that provides a mechanism for companies to transfer data from EU member states to the U.S. This ~~new~~ framework, called the Privacy Shield, is intended to address shortcomings

identified by the European Court of Justice in a predecessor mechanism. The Privacy Shield and other mechanisms are ~~likely~~currently subject to ~~be reviewed by the~~challenges in European courts, which may lead to uncertainty about the legal basis for data transfers across the Atlantic. In 2016, the EU adopted a new law governing data practices and privacy called the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), which becomes effective in May 2018. The law requires firms to meet new requirements regarding the handling of personal data. Engineering efforts to build new capabilities to facilitate compliance with the law may entail substantial expense and the diversion of engineering resources from other projects. If we are unable to engineer products that meet Microsoft’s legal duties or help our customers meet their obligations under the GDPR or other data regulations, we might experience reduced demand for our offerings. Compliance with data regulations might limit our ability to innovate or offer certain features and functionality in some jurisdictions where we operate. Non-compliance with the GDPR may lead to regulatory enforcement actions, which can result in monetary penalties of up to 4% of worldwide ~~turnover.~~revenue, or private lawsuits.

Ongoing legal reviews by regulators may result in burdensome or inconsistent requirements affecting the location and movement of our customer and internal employee data as well as the management of that data. Compliance may require changes in services, business practices, or internal systems that result in increased costs, lower revenue, reduced efficiency, or greater difficulty in competing with foreign-based firms. Failure to comply with existing or new rules may result in significant penalties or orders to stop the alleged noncompliant activity.

Our business depends on our ability to attract and retain talented employees. Our business is based on successfully attracting and retaining talented employees. The market for highly skilled workers and leaders in our industry is extremely competitive. We are limited in our ability to recruit internationally by restrictive domestic immigration laws. Changes to U.S. immigration policies that restrain the flow of technical and professional talent may inhibit our ability to adequately staff our research and development efforts. If we are less successful in our recruiting efforts, or if we cannot retain key employees, our ability to develop and deliver successful products and services may be adversely affected. Effective succession planning is also important to our long-term success. Failure to ensure effective transfer of knowledge and smooth transitions involving key employees could hinder our strategic planning and execution. How employment-related laws are interpreted and applied to our workforce practices may result in increased operating costs and less flexibility in how we meet our workforce needs.

We have claims and lawsuits against us that may result in adverse outcomes. We are subject to a variety of claims and lawsuits. These claims may arise from a wide variety of business practices and initiatives, including major new product releases such as Windows 10, significant business transactions, warranty or product claims, and employment practices. Adverse outcomes in some or all of these claims may result in significant monetary damages or injunctive relief that could adversely affect our ability to conduct our business. The litigation and other claims are subject to inherent uncertainties and management’s view of these matters may change in the future. A material adverse impact on our consolidated financial statements could occur for the period in which the effect of an unfavorable ~~final~~ outcome becomes probable and reasonably estimable.

We may have additional tax liabilities. We are subject to income taxes in the U.S. and many foreign jurisdictions. Significant judgment is required in determining our worldwide provision for income taxes. In the ~~ordinary~~ course of our business, there are many transactions and calculations where the ultimate tax determination is uncertain. For example, compliance with the 2017 United States Tax Cut and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) may require the collection of information not regularly produced within the Company, the use of estimates in our financial statements, and the exercise of significant judgment in accounting for its provisions. As regulations and guidance evolve with respect to TCJA, and as we gather more information and perform more analysis, our results may differ from previous estimates and may materially affect our financial position.

We regularly are under audit by tax authorities in different jurisdictions. Economic and political pressures to increase tax revenue in various jurisdictions may make resolving tax disputes favorably more difficult. Although we believe our tax estimates are reasonable, the final determination of tax audits and any related litigation in the jurisdictions where we are subject to taxation could be materially different from our historical income tax provisions and accruals. The results of an audit or litigation could have a material effect on our consolidated financial statements in the period or periods in which that determination is made.

We earn a significant amount of our operating income ~~from~~ outside the U.S.,; a change in the mix of earnings and ~~any repatriation~~losses in countries with differing statutory tax rates, changes in our business or structure, or the expiration of ~~funds currently held~~or disputes about certain tax agreements in ~~foreign jurisdictions to the U.S.~~a particular country may result in higher effective tax rates for the ~~company.~~Company. In addition, ~~there have been proposals from Congress to change~~changes in U.S. federal and state or international tax laws ~~that would significantly~~applicable to corporate multinationals, other fundamental law changes currently being considered by many countries, including in the U.S., and changes in taxing jurisdictions’ administrative interpretations, decisions, policies, and positions may materially adversely impact how U.S. multinational corporations are taxed on foreign earnings. Although we cannot predict whether or in what form any proposed legislation may pass, if enacted, it could have a material adverse impact on our tax expense and cash flows.

We may experience quality or supply problems. Our vertically-integrated hardware products such as Xbox consoles, Surface devices, ~~phones,~~ and other devices we design, manufacture, and market are highly complex and can have defects in design, manufacture, or associated software. We could incur significant expenses, lost revenue, and reputational harm as a result of recalls, safety alerts, or product liability claims if we fail to prevent, detect, or address such issues through design, testing, or warranty repairs. We acquire some device components from sole suppliers. Our competitors use some of the same suppliers and their demand for hardware components can affect the capacity available to us. If a component from a sole-source supplier is delayed or becomes unavailable, whether because of supplier capacity constraint or industry shortages, we may not obtain timely replacement supplies, resulting in reduced sales. Component shortages, excess or obsolete inventory, or price reductions resulting in inventory adjustments may increase our cost of revenue. Xbox consoles, Surface devices, phones, and other hardware are assembled in Asia and other geographies that may be subject to disruptions in the supply chain, resulting in shortages that would affect our revenue and operating margins. These same risks would apply to any other vertically-integrated hardware and software products we may offer.

Our software products also may experience quality or reliability problems. The ~~highly sophisticated~~highly-sophisticated software products we develop may contain bugs and other defects that interfere with their intended operation. Any defects we do not detect and fix in pre-release testing could cause reduced sales and revenue, damage to our reputation, repair or remediation costs, delays in the release of new products or versions, or legal liability. Although our license agreements typically contain provisions that eliminate or limit our exposure to liability, there is no assurance these provisions will withstand legal challenge.

We acquire some device and datacenter components from sole suppliers. Our competitors use some of the same suppliers and their demand for hardware components can affect the capacity available to us. If a component from a sole-source supplier is delayed or becomes unavailable, whether because of supplier capacity constraint or industry shortages, we may not obtain timely replacement supplies, resulting in reduced sales or inadequate datacenter capacity. Component shortages, excess or obsolete inventory, or price reductions resulting in inventory adjustments may increase our cost of revenue. Xbox consoles, Surface devices, datacenter servers, and other hardware are assembled in Asia and other geographies that may be subject to disruptions in the supply chain, resulting in shortages that would affect our revenue and operating margins. These same risks would apply to any other vertically-integrated hardware and software products we may offer.

We strive to empower all people and organizations to achieve more, and accessibility of our products is an important aspect of this goal. There is increasing pressure from advocacy groups, regulators, competitors, and customers to make technology more accessible. If our products do not meet customer expectations or emerging global accessibility requirements, we could lose sales opportunities or face regulatory actions.

Our global business exposes us to operational and economic risks. Our customers are located in over 200 countries and a significant part of our revenue comes from international sales. The global nature of our business creates operational and economic risks. Emerging markets are a significant focus of our international growth strategy. The developing nature of these markets presents several risks, including deterioration of social, political, labor, or economic conditions in a country or region, and difficulties in staffing and managing foreign operations. Although we hedge a portion of our international currency exposure, significant fluctuations in foreign exchange rates between the U.S. dollar and foreign currencies may adversely affect our revenue. Competitive or regulatory pressure to make our pricing structure uniform might require that we reduce the sales price of our software in the U.S. and other countries.

Catastrophic events or geopolitical conditions may disrupt our business. A disruption or failure of our systems or operations because of a major earthquake, weather event, cyber-attack, terrorist attack, or other catastrophic event could cause delays in completing sales, providing services, or performing other critical functions. Our corporate headquarters, a significant portion of our research and development activities, and certain other essential business operations are in the Seattle, Washington area, and we have other business operations in the Silicon Valley area of California, both of which are seismically active regions. A catastrophic event that results in the destruction or disruption of any of our critical business or IT systems could harm our ability to conduct normal business operations. Providing our customers with more services and solutions in the cloud puts a premium on the resilience of our systems and strength of our business continuity management plans, and magnifies the potential impact of prolonged service outages on our operating results.

Abrupt political change, terrorist activity, and armed conflict pose a risk of general economic disruption in affected countries, which may increase our operating costs. These conditions also may add uncertainty to the timing and budget for technology investment decisions by our customers, and may cause supply chain disruptions for hardware manufacturers. Geopolitical change may result in changing regulatory requirements that could impact our operating strategies, access to global markets, hiring, and profitability. Geopolitical instability may lead to sanctions and impact our ability to do business in some markets or with some public-sector customers. Emerging nationalist trends in specific countries may significantly alter the trade environment. Changes to trade policy or agreements may result in higher tariffs, local sourcing initiatives, or other developments that make it more difficult to sell our products in foreign countries. Any of these changes may negatively impact our revenues.

The long-term effects of climate change on the global economy or the IT industry in particular are unclear. Environmental regulations or changes in the supply, demand or available sources of energy or other natural resources may affect the availability or cost of goods and services, including natural resources, necessary to run our business. Changes in weather where we operate may increase the costs of powering and cooling computer hardware we use to develop software and provide cloud-based services.

Adverse economic or market conditions may harm our business. Worsening economic conditions, including inflation, recession, or other changes in economic conditions, may cause lower IT spending and adversely affect our revenue. If demand for PCs, servers, and other computing devices declines, or consumer or business spending for those products declines, our revenue will be adversely affected. Substantial revenue comes from our U.S. government contracts. An extended federal government shutdown resulting from failing to pass budget appropriations, adopt continuing funding resolutions or raise the debt ceiling, and other budgetary decisions limiting or delaying federal government spending, could reduce government IT spending on our products and services and adversely affect our revenue.

Our product distribution system relies on an extensive partner and retail network. OEMs building devices that run our software have also been a significant means of distribution. The impact of economic conditions on our partners, such as the bankruptcy of a major distributor, OEM, or retailer, could cause sales channel disruption.

Challenging economic conditions also may impair the ability of our customers to pay for products and services they have purchased. As a result, allowances for doubtful accounts and write-offs of accounts receivable may increase.

We maintain an investment portfolio of various holdings, types, and maturities. These investments are subject to general credit, liquidity, market, and interest rate risks, which may be exacerbated by unusual events that affect global financial markets. A significant part of our investment portfolio comprises U.S. government securities. If global credit and equity markets decline for long periods, or if there is a downgrade of the U.S. government credit rating due to an actual or threatened default on government debt, our investment portfolio may be adversely affected and we could determine that more of our investments have experienced an other-than-temporary decline in fair value, requiring impairment charges that could adversely affect our financial results.

Changes in our sales organization may impact revenues. In July 2017, we announced plans to reorganize our global sales organization to help enable customers’ digital transformation, add greater technical ability to our sales force, and create pooled resources that can be used across countries and industries. The reorganization is the most significant change in our global sales organization in Microsoft’s history, involving employees changing roles, adding additional talent, realigning teams, and onboarding new partners. Successfully executing these changes will be a significant factor in enabling future revenue growth. As we navigate through this transition, sales, profitability, and cash flow could be adversely impacted.

~~See~~Refer to Note 1617 – Stockholders’ Equity inof the Notes to Financial Statements (Part 1,I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q) for further ~~discussion.~~discussion regarding dividends and share repurchases. Following are our monthly ~~share~~stock repurchases for the ~~third~~second quarter of fiscal year ~~2017:~~2018:

All repurchases were made using cash resources. Our ~~share~~stock repurchases may occur through open market purchases or pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

~~Excluded from this disclosure are~~ The above table excludes shares repurchased to settle ~~statutory~~ employee tax withholding related to the vesting of stock awards.

During the quarter ended December 31, 2017, Microsoft provided software services to a person or entity identified under section 560.304 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations. The services constituted a cloud-based spam and malware filtering service and the cloud-based provision of Office 365 software services provided to two entities associated with the Iranian bank, Bank Sepah – Bank Sepah International PLC and Banque Sepah, respectively. For the former, an annual service fee equivalent to $600 was charged for a one-year period beginning in February 2017, and for the latter, use rights were charged at a price equivalent to approximately $55 per month from September 2016 through November 2017, totaling $770. It is not possible to determine the precise profits, if any, attributable to these activities, though they are less than the associated revenues. Microsoft has ceased providing these software services to these entities and has no intention of doing so in the future.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

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PART I.	FINANCIAL INFORMATION

	Item 1.	Financial Statements		3

		a)	Income Statements for the Three and ~~Nine~~Six Months Ended ~~March~~December 31, 2017 and 2016	3

		b)	Comprehensive Income Statements for the Three and ~~Nine~~Six Months Ended ~~March~~December 31, 2017 and 2016	4

		c)	Balance Sheets as of ~~March~~December 31, 2017 and June 30, ~~2016~~2017	5

		d)	Cash Flows Statements for the Three and ~~Nine~~Six Months Ended ~~March~~December 31, 2017 and 2016	6

		e)	Stockholders’ Equity Statements for the Three and ~~Nine~~Six Months Ended ~~March~~December 31, 2017 and 2016	7

		f)	Notes to Financial Statements	8

		g)	Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm	3339

	Item 2.	Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations		3440

	Item 3.	Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk		4955

	Item 4.	Controls and Procedures		5056

PART II.	OTHER INFORMATION

	Item 1.	Legal Proceedings		5157

	Item 1A.	Risk Factors		5157

	Item 2.	Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds		6067

	Item 5.	Other Information		67

	Item 6.	Exhibits		6168

SIGNATURE				6269

(In millions)	As Previously Reported		As Adjusted		As Previously Reported		As Adjusted


Balance Sheets				June 30, 2017			September 30, 2017

Long-term income taxes	$	0	$	13,485	$	0	$	13,944
Other long-term liabilities		17,034		3,549		18,173		4,229


(In millions)


Six Months Ended December 31, 2017

Balance, beginning of period	$	361
Charged to costs and other		45
Write-offs		(53	)


Balance, end of period	$	353


Reported as of December 31, 2017

Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts	$	337
Other long-term assets		16


Total	$	353

(In millions, except per share amounts)	As Previously Reported		New Revenue Standard Adjustment		As Restated


Income Statements

Three Months Ended December 31, 2016

Revenue	$	24,090	$	1,736	$	25,826
Provision for income taxes		1,163		592		1,755
Net income		5,200		1,067		6,267
Diluted earnings per share		0.66		0.14		0.80

Six Months Ended December 31, 2016

Revenue	$	44,543	$	3,211	$	47,754
Provision for income taxes		1,798		1,117		2,915
Net income		9,890		2,044		11,934
Diluted earnings per share		1.26		0.26		1.52

(In millions)


Cash and cash equivalents	$	1,328
Short-term investments		2,110
Other current assets		697
Property and equipment		1,529
Intangible assets		7,887
Goodwill ⁽^a⁾		16,687
Short-term debt ^(b)		(1,323	)
Other current liabilities		(1,117	)
Deferred income taxes		(657	)
Other		(132	)


Total purchase price	$	27,009

(In millions)	Amount		Weighted Average Life


Customer-related	$	3,607		7 years
Marketing-related (trade names)		2,148		20 years
Technology-based		2,109		3 years
Contract-based		23		5 years


Fair value of intangible assets acquired	$	7,887		9 years

(In millions)	Three Months Ended March 31, 2017			Nine Months Ended March 31, 2017




Revenue	$	975		$	1,203
Operating loss	$	(386	)	$	(587	)

(In millions)	June 30, 2016		Acquisitions			Other			March 31, 2017


Productivity and Business Processes	$	6,678	$	16,854	^(a)	$	(149	)	$	23,383
Intelligent Cloud		5,467		37			24			5,528
More Personal Computing		5,727		115			(85	)		5,757


Total	$	17,872	$	17,006		$	(210	)	$	34,668

(In millions, except lease term and discount rate)


	December 31, 2017			June 30, 2017

Operating Leases
Operating lease right-of-use assets	$	6,749		$	6,555

Other current liabilities	$	1,343		$	1,423
Operating lease liabilities		5,640			5,372


Total operating lease liabilities	$	6,983		$	6,795

Finance Leases

Property and equipment, gross	$	4,062		$	2,658
Accumulated depreciation		(266	)		(161	)


Property and equipment, net	$	3,796		$	2,497

Other current liabilities	$	156		$	113
Other long-term liabilities		3,746			2,425


Total finance lease liabilities	$	3,902		$	2,538

Weighted Average Remaining Lease Term

Operating leases		7 years			7 years
Finance leases		14 years			13 years

Weighted Average Discount Rate

Operating leases		2.5%			2.5%
Finance leases		5.0%			4.7%

(In millions)	Shares		Amount				Shares		Amount


Fiscal Year				2017						2016

First Quarter ^(a)		63		$	3,550			89		$	4,000
Second Quarter ^(a)		59			3,533			66			3,600
Third Quarter		25			1,600	^(b)		69			3,600	^(a)


Total		147		$	8,683			224		$	11,200

Declaration Date	Dividend Per Share		Record Date		Total Amount		Payment Date


					(in millions)

Fiscal year 2017

September 20, 2016	$	0.39		November 17, 2016	$	3,024		December 8, 2016
November 30, 2016	$	0.39		February 16, 2017	$	3,012		March 9, 2017
March 14, 2017	$	0.39		May 18, 2017	$	3,012		June 8, 2017

(In millions, except percentages and per share amounts)	Three Months Ended March 31,				Percentage Change		Nine Months Ended March 31,				Percentage Change


	2017		2016				2017		2016

Revenue	$	22,090	$	20,531		8%	$	66,633	$	64,706		3%
Gross margin	$	14,030	$	12,809		10%	$	40,828	$	39,905		2%
Operating income	$	5,594	$	5,283		6%	$	16,996	$	17,102		(1)%
Diluted earnings per share	$	0.61	$	0.47		30%	$	1.87	$	1.70		10%

Period	Total Number of Shares Purchased		Average Price Paid per Share		Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs		Approximate Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet be Purchased under the Plans or Programs


							(in millions)

January 1, 2017 – January 31, 2017		5,838,030	$	63.11		5,838,030	$	39,632
February 1, 2017 – February 28, 2017		9,015,000	$	64.04		9,015,000	$	39,054
March 1, 2017 – March 31, 2017		10,107,811	$	64.72		10,107,811	$	38,400


		24,960,841				24,960,841

~~4.15~~ 10.14*		~~Twelfth Supplemental Indenture~~Microsoft Corporation Deferred Compensation Plan for ~~1.850% Notes due 2020, 2.400% Notes due 2022, 2.875% Notes due 2024, 3.300% Notes due 2027, 4.100% Notes due 2037, 4.250% Notes due 2047,~~Non-Employee Directors (Amended and ~~4.500% Notes due 2057, dated~~Restated Effective as of February 6, 2017, between Microsoft Corporation and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee, to the Indenture, dated as of May 18, 2009, between Microsoft Corporation and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (incorporated by reference to Current Report on Form 8-K filed February 3,December 1, 2017)

15 10.26*		Microsoft Corporation 2017 Stock Plan (incorporated by reference to Annex C to the Microsoft Corporation Proxy Statement filed on October 16, 2017)

15.1		Letter regarding unaudited interim financial information

31.1		Certifications of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

31.2		Certifications of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

32.1**		Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

32.2**		Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

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